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 6685-01-391-9078
NSN 6150-01-075-5667
NSN 6650-00-015-1835
NSN 5945-01-483-1316
NSN 6645-01-609-0332
NSN 5925-01-123-9866
NSN 5960-01-284-1642
NSN 6240-01-484-6652
NSN 5975-01-062-1435
NSN 5975-00-276-7559
NSN 5895-00-099-9532
NSN 6220-01-437-9085