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 6685-00-661-2347
NSN 6320-01-103-6218
NSN 6150-00-827-4861
NSN 6110-00-402-0055
NSN 6110-01-626-2587
NSN 5990-00-617-1422
NSN 6145-00-793-7816
NSN 6650-01-418-4181
NSN 5915-01-054-7314
NSN 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 6610-01-052-0803
NSN 5998-00-247-5640