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 6240-01-246-4258
NSN 5965-00-543-1837
NSN 6110-01-217-7932
NSN 6150-01-603-7064
NSN 5930-01-173-4036
NSN 5930-01-448-5672
NSN 6610-01-250-2811
NSN 5996-01-027-1729
NSN 6150-01-521-4330
NSN 6620-01-301-3258
NSN 5920-01-292-7625
NSN 5915-00-057-4845