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 6610-01-243-8506
NSN 6130-01-159-6153
NSN 5905-01-452-9884
NSN 6220-01-070-0244
NSN 5910-01-633-9963
NSN 5950-01-585-3729
NSN 5950-01-651-3509
NSN 5935-01-240-2985
NSN 6130-01-341-2095
NSN 5930-01-046-2643
NSN 6650-00-098-6128
NSN 5915-00-374-0935