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 6610-01-346-2802
NSN 6150-00-010-1416
NSN 5975-01-056-2698
NSN 6130-01-538-6792
NSN 5999-01-314-3467
NSN 5915-01-302-7984
NSN 6645-00-079-4087
NSN 6220-01-330-6650
NSN 6320-01-465-2028
NSN 5950-01-453-8316
NSN 5998-00-848-7989
NSN 6645-01-088-5244