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 6150-01-035-7065
NSN 5915-01-547-4655
NSN 5925-01-415-4809
NSN 6620-01-411-5750
NSN 5985-01-476-3649
NSN 6150-01-424-8981
NSN 5925-00-315-2238
NSN 6620-01-521-9710
NSN 6620-00-490-3978
NSN 6110-01-557-3327
NSN 6130-00-426-0058
NSN 5996-01-324-2449