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 6645-01-537-4226
NSN 6110-00-617-5497
NSN 6130-00-081-2186
NSN 5925-01-576-5407
NSN 5930-00-295-3859
NSN 5915-00-996-7763
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5895-00-637-2658
NSN 6320-01-064-0372
NSN 6645-00-402-5622
NSN 6620-01-437-8193
NSN 6650-01-587-5867