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 5985-00-081-9142
NSN 6645-01-442-6476
NSN 6105-01-500-3409
NSN 5965-01-517-8198
NSN 6320-01-185-3857
NSN 6620-00-269-8950
NSN 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 6620-01-336-8670
NSN 5996-00-816-9320
NSN 6130-01-400-6123
NSN 5990-00-841-5637
NSN 6240-01-252-4219