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 6620-01-616-6008
NSN 5835-00-170-5238
NSN 6145-01-441-7190
NSN 6135-01-167-7604
NSN 5998-00-406-6512
NSN 5910-00-868-4729
NSN 6220-01-607-0130
NSN 5965-00-170-5254
NSN 5925-00-561-9648
NSN 6620-01-365-1499
NSN 5925-00-999-9320
NSN 5990-01-231-9608