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 6620-01-494-9858
NSN 5975-01-041-5836
NSN 5950-01-444-4053
NSN 6685-00-554-3825
NSN 5945-00-048-3063
NSN 5905-01-283-2911
NSN 5985-01-286-0747
NSN 6620-00-102-7442
NSN 5999-01-422-7525
NSN 2925-00-005-1618
NSN 5930-00-468-1004
NSN 5950-01-010-4319