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 5835-00-614-0650
NSN 6645-01-030-8930
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 5915-00-659-3107
NSN 6620-01-645-1777
NSN 6150-00-187-3535
NSN 5945-01-277-6791
NSN 4140-01-044-6064
NSN 5930-00-491-9949
NSN 6150-01-032-4556
NSN 6150-01-411-6037
NSN 6220-01-371-9905