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 5895-01-278-4721
NSN 5945-01-183-3768
NSN 5945-01-466-1558
NSN 6145-01-212-3528
NSN 5910-01-467-3009
NSN 6610-01-422-7646
NSN 5975-01-092-8655
NSN 5965-01-258-5662
NSN 6620-01-371-1655
NSN 6620-00-756-9134
NSN 6645-01-452-9495
NSN 6110-01-306-5193