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 5920-01-422-4151
NSN 6220-01-274-6315
NSN 6320-01-176-8367
NSN 6145-01-343-6712
NSN 5895-01-050-2023
NSN 5998-00-115-3416
NSN 5915-00-470-8289
NSN 6220-01-504-6494
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 6650-01-560-2861
NSN 6610-01-119-3048
NSN 6105-01-532-1920