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 6110-01-086-4204
NSN 6610-01-085-6947
NSN 5990-01-021-3665
NSN 5950-00-248-6921
NSN 6650-01-272-9746
NSN 5990-00-936-3947
NSN 6105-01-147-5155
NSN 6610-01-212-2969
NSN 6650-01-384-1657
NSN 6110-00-896-5807
NSN 6610-01-414-1755
NSN 6135-00-752-1589