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 6145-01-328-7991
NSN 6685-01-223-2874
NSN 5905-00-754-3327
NSN 5835-01-504-0837
NSN 6645-01-322-8431
NSN 5915-01-181-5603
NSN 6105-01-224-7258
NSN 5910-01-483-2739
NSN 6685-01-063-7425
NSN 6610-01-582-8181
NSN 7035-01-123-8723
NSN 6220-00-552-0667