An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6130-01-433-2215
NSN 5950-01-276-4700
NSN 2925-01-385-6661
NSN 5965-01-181-3140
NSN 5965-01-135-1336
NSN 6610-01-518-1264
NSN 5920-00-931-7979
NSN 6610-01-066-4664
NSN 2925-01-303-5266
NSN 5960-01-149-0687
NSN 5835-01-098-4289
NSN 6610-01-442-3509