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 6610-00-170-6715
NSN 6240-01-162-9086
NSN 5998-01-253-9336
NSN 5996-00-538-7829
NSN 6110-01-185-4039
NSN 5910-01-451-8053
NSN 5920-01-492-6512
NSN 5950-01-426-6846
NSN 5960-01-107-9069
NSN 5999-00-110-9352
NSN 6645-00-102-0015
NSN 5965-00-153-5216