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 6650-01-304-4955
NSN 6145-00-259-6946
NSN 5910-01-152-2051
NSN 5920-00-451-6847
NSN 6240-00-292-3237
NSN 5999-00-215-4048
NSN 6145-00-156-4394
NSN 5945-00-134-7401
NSN 5985-00-158-5316
NSN 5999-00-420-1483
NSN 6620-01-338-8945
NSN 6620-01-039-5468