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 6220-01-413-1756
NSN 5990-01-050-7535
NSN 5965-00-908-1402
NSN 6645-01-633-1852
NSN 5835-01-123-8305
NSN 5895-01-045-1022
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5996-00-050-6570
NSN 6130-01-207-3320
NSN 5920-00-730-8541
NSN 5925-01-004-9293
NSN 5935-00-669-2717