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 6650-01-252-8190
NSN 6135-00-577-8429
NSN 5960-01-211-2089
NSN 6130-01-536-8987
NSN 5905-00-573-9396
NSN 6105-00-455-8879
NSN 6145-01-270-6755
NSN 5915-00-182-8068
NSN 6610-00-225-9886
NSN 5990-00-518-3195
NSN 5910-01-633-9963
NSN 6110-00-155-8055