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 6685-00-518-4237
NSN 6685-01-447-5633
NSN 6130-01-497-2387
NSN 6105-01-243-6998
NSN 5895-01-081-9272
NSN 5960-01-090-2065
NSN 5975-01-591-2625
NSN 5910-01-477-3514
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 6110-01-038-2028
NSN 5999-01-224-8589
NSN 6645-01-041-3533