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 6610-01-289-0847
NSN 6110-01-284-5709
NSN 5935-00-045-3378
NSN 5950-01-311-0524
NSN 5999-01-416-9322
NSN 6320-01-240-4637
NSN 6645-01-342-9415
NSN 6220-01-050-0835
NSN 6135-00-112-8637
NSN 6150-00-491-9654
NSN 5935-01-546-2041
NSN 6220-00-276-8681