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 6620-01-250-1692
NSN 6145-00-500-5679
NSN 4140-01-061-6944
NSN 2925-00-759-5465
NSN 5930-00-376-5776
NSN 5975-01-648-1235
NSN 5855-01-020-7982
NSN 5950-00-179-1054
NSN 6145-01-003-8665
NSN 5920-01-269-8290
NSN 6645-01-377-7832
NSN 6320-01-158-2177