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 6650-01-122-0169
NSN 5930-00-279-4060
NSN 6320-01-033-6624
NSN 6685-01-073-0667
NSN 5905-00-110-0388
NSN 5990-01-581-5103
NSN 6130-01-025-9783
NSN 5950-00-868-5929
NSN 6220-01-154-3213
NSN 5985-00-875-2852
NSN 6685-00-284-2244
NSN 6220-01-530-7197