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 6240-00-854-1962
NSN 6620-01-112-6440
NSN 5990-00-378-1449
NSN 6220-01-267-4643
NSN 5960-00-287-9932
NSN 5855-00-079-2370
NSN 5985-00-467-0956
NSN 6620-01-575-9561
NSN 6105-01-323-1416
NSN 5905-01-532-9432
NSN 5990-01-631-5537
NSN 6685-01-279-1994