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 6650-01-415-6682
NSN 6220-00-560-4012
NSN 5975-00-276-7559
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 6145-01-091-2064
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 6145-00-296-0085
NSN 6150-01-155-4905
NSN 5960-01-580-6360
NSN 6645-01-262-4853
NSN 5985-00-752-7408
NSN 5975-01-490-0353