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 6240-01-333-5455
NSN 6620-01-526-2857
NSN 6240-00-816-6749
NSN 6320-00-857-4073
NSN 5965-01-551-9557
NSN 5960-00-104-5955
NSN 5950-01-056-5157
NSN 5935-01-236-5595
NSN 5855-00-757-5149
NSN 6645-00-789-5210
NSN 5998-01-286-8545
NSN 5915-01-323-5279