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 6685-01-371-2956
NSN 2925-01-603-6379
NSN 5935-00-941-2287
NSN 5998-00-518-8565
NSN 6105-01-595-2000
NSN 5975-01-216-0967
NSN 4140-00-999-2577
NSN 6105-00-516-2151
NSN 5945-01-644-8447
NSN 5998-00-517-2558
NSN 6650-00-155-8431
NSN 7035-01-578-5403