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 6150-01-532-2735
NSN 6105-01-305-7689
NSN 6240-01-279-3614
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 5945-00-892-7134
NSN 5950-01-260-6819
NSN 6130-01-449-9877
NSN 5990-01-564-9532
NSN 6240-01-578-6227
NSN 6105-01-299-4532
NSN 5935-01-101-0432
NSN 5930-00-998-9015