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 5960-01-422-3269
NSN 6620-01-453-6037
NSN 6320-01-094-2634
NSN 5930-01-607-6620
NSN 6610-01-236-8359
NSN 6105-01-430-5401
NSN 5960-01-525-1690
NSN 5965-01-446-6945
NSN 6610-00-250-5344
NSN 6610-01-305-4473
NSN 5975-01-086-7926
NSN 6240-00-805-0955