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 6645-01-521-0424
NSN 6685-00-339-0288
NSN 6685-01-260-9156
NSN 5985-00-308-6341
NSN 5998-00-220-5796
NSN 5925-00-147-0749
NSN 5996-00-055-8915
NSN 5905-01-634-0595
NSN 6130-01-414-8408
NSN 6320-00-857-4073
NSN 6135-01-247-5660
NSN 6685-01-439-9342