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 6320-01-495-0512
NSN 5855-01-534-3724
NSN 5998-00-789-5348
NSN 4140-00-727-3731
NSN 5950-01-144-1548
NSN 5910-01-066-6272
NSN 5985-01-323-8390
NSN 5960-01-453-0999
NSN 5945-01-411-4681
NSN 6110-00-288-4179
NSN 6685-01-528-1835
NSN 6685-00-642-0533