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 6620-01-468-6017
NSN 5950-00-248-5674
NSN 6645-01-226-2766
NSN 5965-00-208-4896
NSN 6105-01-442-7801
NSN 5996-01-410-6984
NSN 5945-00-420-1273
NSN 5925-01-253-0066
NSN 6620-00-090-1601
NSN 6610-01-220-5262
NSN 6645-00-764-3355
NSN 6650-00-266-6808