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 6220-01-097-6202
NSN 5855-01-389-3091
NSN 6610-01-398-8092
NSN 5945-01-191-7037
NSN 5950-01-494-2028
NSN 6220-00-187-8569
NSN 5950-00-942-3824
NSN 6610-00-874-5798
NSN 5905-01-221-6407
NSN 5835-01-290-4397
NSN 5905-00-561-4654
NSN 5930-01-122-5655