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 6650-01-060-8498
NSN 5975-00-833-2398
NSN 5930-00-762-4765
NSN 6220-01-146-9351
NSN 5996-01-046-6351
NSN 5990-01-225-5374
NSN 6610-01-017-4789
NSN 5945-00-599-2230
NSN 5965-00-092-8841
NSN 6110-01-334-1476
NSN 6130-01-468-6484
NSN 4140-01-454-5015