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 6650-01-260-7427
NSN 5855-01-079-8716
NSN 5965-01-026-9865
NSN 5855-01-330-1918
NSN 5960-01-583-4737
NSN 5915-00-301-3818
NSN 5925-00-970-7362
NSN 5930-00-543-3216
NSN 5930-00-008-5221
NSN 6150-01-230-1428
NSN 4140-01-053-5359
NSN 5998-00-982-6049