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 6620-01-538-2294
NSN 5996-00-960-9245
NSN 5925-00-821-7240
NSN 5835-01-426-6573
NSN 5935-01-092-8600
NSN 6650-00-754-2276
NSN 5915-01-592-6372
NSN 5999-01-485-3131
NSN 7035-00-063-5245
NSN 5990-01-300-7801
NSN 6320-01-350-5570
NSN 5990-00-789-1333