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 6685-01-649-8166
NSN 6620-01-217-1490
NSN 5920-01-234-5914
NSN 5835-00-905-7165
NSN 5996-01-282-0703
NSN 5996-01-385-6659
NSN 5960-01-160-3437
NSN 6220-01-028-0329
NSN 4140-01-099-8096
NSN 6320-01-322-8340
NSN 5965-01-059-4028
NSN 5895-00-162-2432