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 6320-01-659-2819
NSN 6220-00-393-0681
NSN 4140-01-482-4432
NSN 6130-01-653-3851
NSN 6610-01-553-4749
NSN 5950-00-219-6537
NSN 5999-01-613-3066
NSN 5945-01-240-0459
NSN 5945-00-233-1543
NSN 5950-01-381-2994
NSN 6620-01-448-8926
NSN 7035-00-897-7567