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 6645-01-006-6735
NSN 5905-01-103-6229
NSN 6685-01-651-9464
NSN 6320-01-393-7022
NSN 5998-00-444-5293
NSN 6110-01-657-6088
NSN 5996-01-055-2253
NSN 6105-01-415-5555
NSN 5975-00-594-8857
NSN 5855-01-191-3404
NSN 5985-01-429-4999
NSN 5855-00-973-5717