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 6620-01-627-0478
NSN 5950-00-498-4333
NSN 6610-00-213-8544
NSN 6150-01-600-0378
NSN 5975-00-312-1410
NSN 5998-01-657-7942
NSN 6145-01-214-8810
NSN 5990-01-162-9220
NSN 5910-01-550-8339
NSN 5835-01-075-9884
NSN 5915-01-424-3186
NSN 5925-00-100-0102