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 6650-01-485-6938
NSN 6645-01-216-7168
NSN 5920-00-930-9851
NSN 6145-00-174-6962
NSN 6685-01-183-5481
NSN 6145-01-606-9941
NSN 5915-01-495-9347
NSN 6110-01-144-5837
NSN 5950-01-551-1202
NSN 5990-01-600-5989
NSN 6105-00-248-5772
NSN 5930-00-087-7745