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 6620-01-645-4148
NSN 5975-01-468-1555
NSN 6150-01-228-4403
NSN 6240-01-097-3934
NSN 6150-01-210-6770
NSN 5965-00-481-9866
NSN 6130-01-199-0816
NSN 5935-01-583-8470
NSN 5975-01-135-4453
NSN 5925-01-593-1220
NSN 5945-01-368-3014
NSN 5950-01-418-0266