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 6645-00-764-3355
NSN 6105-00-205-0655
NSN 5935-01-462-5826
NSN 5855-00-147-2508
NSN 6620-00-930-5680
NSN 5925-00-944-8650
NSN 6645-01-400-2119
NSN 5965-00-406-9561
NSN 5985-01-069-2523
NSN 6135-01-579-3534
NSN 5998-01-045-9134
NSN 5998-01-519-8593