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 6240-01-486-0255
NSN 6110-01-501-5764
NSN 5990-01-140-5497
NSN 5999-01-579-3601
NSN 6130-01-430-9573
NSN 5935-00-736-7879
NSN 5910-00-873-2734
NSN 5920-01-462-7234
NSN 5910-01-218-5987
NSN 5910-01-065-6907
NSN 6685-01-093-7841
NSN 6685-00-854-7947