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 6620-00-843-5336
NSN 6220-00-673-5287
NSN 6645-00-938-2173
NSN 6135-00-932-3136
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5925-01-435-5869
NSN 6150-01-270-7634
NSN 6105-01-417-4470
NSN 5835-01-360-1058
NSN 5895-00-016-4455
NSN 6610-01-018-9122
NSN 5925-01-381-0614