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 6685-01-654-6807
NSN 6150-00-008-9794
NSN 5835-00-513-9680
NSN 6620-01-524-9112
NSN 6240-01-131-3223
NSN 6645-01-021-5727
NSN 5998-00-878-2012
NSN 6620-01-109-2764
NSN 6145-00-269-4271
NSN 5990-01-053-5115
NSN 5855-01-169-9228
NSN 6220-00-274-6880