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 6320-01-422-1212
NSN 5910-00-682-0746
NSN 5965-00-686-7067
NSN 5965-01-192-5025
NSN 6145-01-346-3931
NSN 5915-01-222-5175
NSN 2925-01-457-5649
NSN 5965-01-459-7311
NSN 5915-01-010-1562
NSN 6610-00-063-8489
NSN 6685-00-435-8831
NSN 6135-01-501-5376