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 6685-01-271-5058
NSN 5855-00-089-3974
NSN 5895-01-450-7224
NSN 6110-00-369-8499
NSN 6650-01-531-5050
NSN 5910-00-468-8352
NSN 5925-01-479-4984
NSN 5960-01-512-0233
NSN 6110-00-982-2838
NSN 5999-01-648-6796
NSN 5905-00-964-5517
NSN 5895-00-490-1550