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 6150-01-215-1149
NSN 6610-00-846-4525
NSN 6145-00-181-9622
NSN 5985-00-901-8810
NSN 6240-00-299-9819
NSN 6105-01-625-9636
NSN 5965-01-600-8137
NSN 6105-00-112-9099
NSN 5998-01-359-3404
NSN 5965-01-092-6344
NSN 5895-00-480-3254
NSN 6105-01-527-2890