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 6645-00-152-1702
NSN 6105-00-394-6803
NSN 5945-01-293-9822
NSN 5965-00-564-4399
NSN 5855-01-119-9575
NSN 5975-01-103-0185
NSN 5930-01-545-0575
NSN 6685-01-221-7678
NSN 5985-00-488-9403
NSN 6645-01-182-1471
NSN 5950-01-491-4407
NSN 6240-00-222-0276