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 6220-01-463-9826
NSN 5835-00-113-6090
NSN 5950-01-423-3101
NSN 5945-01-328-8526
NSN 5960-00-257-4203
NSN 6135-01-252-0315
NSN 6145-00-497-1578
NSN 6150-01-102-8793
NSN 5835-01-104-5707
NSN 5950-01-601-3649
NSN 5998-01-483-2273
NSN 5930-00-194-8781