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 6105-00-359-9243
NSN 6110-01-328-4009
NSN 5965-01-056-1303
NSN 6220-00-263-4893
NSN 6130-01-185-4956
NSN 5835-01-412-0344
NSN 5905-00-607-2033
NSN 6320-00-931-4855
NSN 6150-01-463-3409
NSN 5975-01-133-0346
NSN 6610-01-176-9314
NSN 6685-01-657-3907