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 6645-00-472-4048
NSN 5975-01-104-4863
NSN 5999-01-327-6059
NSN 5998-00-966-6405
NSN 6130-00-707-5931
NSN 6610-01-237-5815
NSN 5945-01-592-2115
NSN 5999-01-054-5317
NSN 7035-01-211-1770
NSN 6110-00-820-1660
NSN 5855-01-147-6024
NSN 6320-01-501-7935