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 6110-01-373-0322
NSN 6220-01-584-0934
NSN 6645-00-009-8811
NSN 5985-00-508-9949
NSN 6110-01-508-4312
NSN 6135-00-269-5843
NSN 5990-00-904-3475
NSN 6110-01-242-0334
NSN 6645-01-351-1154
NSN 5985-01-099-0275
NSN 5998-00-544-2610
NSN 5945-00-208-4123