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 5930-01-198-2069
NSN 5935-01-104-2813
NSN 6145-01-333-3693
NSN 5835-01-407-3255
NSN 6620-01-119-3396
NSN 5999-00-353-1234
NSN 5910-01-200-1668
NSN 6105-00-541-8472
NSN 6220-00-099-9192
NSN 4140-01-300-5636
NSN 6645-01-304-4308
NSN 6105-00-180-7285