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 6650-01-604-9073
NSN 6645-01-204-7094
NSN 5999-01-073-8816
NSN 5920-01-173-1750
NSN 5910-00-195-6925
NSN 6110-00-168-8683
NSN 5950-00-243-6875
NSN 6220-00-841-1275
NSN 6620-00-109-9498
NSN 5965-01-128-1963
NSN 6145-00-153-2818
NSN 6150-00-497-6927