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 6645-01-052-4069
NSN 7035-01-145-5059
NSN 6110-01-143-5909
NSN 5999-01-093-8392
NSN 6320-01-436-9228
NSN 5990-00-160-1176
NSN 6610-01-102-0194
NSN 5895-01-541-4418
NSN 5945-01-203-8019
NSN 6150-00-299-0763
NSN 5895-00-578-8424
NSN 6620-01-437-0387