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 6145-01-144-4815
NSN 5930-00-099-2103
NSN 5985-01-627-8307
NSN 6150-01-314-6062
NSN 5950-01-359-2601
NSN 5998-00-541-8792
NSN 6685-01-508-6237
NSN 5915-01-157-8407
NSN 6110-00-186-2542
NSN 5915-01-387-7785
NSN 6130-00-063-8218
NSN 5835-01-354-0566