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 6610-00-056-1026
NSN 5996-01-256-6673
NSN 5920-01-140-1120
NSN 5996-01-332-1548
NSN 6620-01-302-0049
NSN 5996-01-462-0112
NSN 6135-01-031-8078
NSN 6685-01-526-9959
NSN 6650-01-317-6846
NSN 5905-01-354-7234
NSN 6645-00-692-2809
NSN 5975-01-137-1094