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 6220-00-682-8292
NSN 6645-00-145-6411
NSN 6645-01-387-4811
NSN 6150-00-079-1101
NSN 5975-00-896-7612
NSN 6220-01-656-0483
NSN 6685-01-605-1491
NSN 5950-01-573-0109
NSN 6240-01-032-4624
NSN 6620-01-319-8178
NSN 5895-01-224-5857
NSN 6685-01-328-8051