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 5950-01-359-8591
NSN 6620-01-290-2973
NSN 6620-00-153-0982
NSN 5855-01-118-2210
NSN 5925-01-160-3915
NSN 6130-01-487-0835
NSN 5855-00-310-2740
NSN 5998-01-324-7096
NSN 6150-01-091-9818
NSN 6610-00-705-9502
NSN 6620-00-006-1915
NSN 6320-01-056-1164