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 6650-01-379-2953
NSN 5990-00-339-2084
NSN 5920-01-381-6361
NSN 5905-01-441-2322
NSN 6620-01-554-3987
NSN 5895-00-234-4261
NSN 5835-00-757-3558
NSN 5990-01-626-1249
NSN 6135-01-485-3082
NSN 6220-00-079-0851
NSN 5925-00-612-7159
NSN 5905-01-449-2399