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 6650-01-159-4251
NSN 5920-01-067-4897
NSN 5945-01-284-5665
NSN 5945-01-267-4844
NSN 5999-00-269-5320
NSN 6610-00-974-5348
NSN 5895-01-443-4711
NSN 5855-00-896-4047
NSN 6320-01-225-9963
NSN 5945-01-286-9567
NSN 2925-00-477-2654
NSN 6130-00-877-5743