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 6650-00-161-4122
NSN 6145-01-655-3995
NSN 5915-01-273-0749
NSN 6130-01-028-4028
NSN 6220-00-376-8103
NSN 5965-01-482-9711
NSN 6610-00-597-5671
NSN 5985-00-418-3051
NSN 6240-00-230-2716
NSN 5915-00-091-1178
NSN 6110-01-359-7866
NSN 5985-01-127-1218