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 6150-01-422-2755
NSN 6320-01-094-2634
NSN 5996-00-454-7938
NSN 5895-01-464-0505
NSN 5965-00-111-2073
NSN 2925-00-251-0105
NSN 5925-00-054-4152
NSN 6220-01-168-7773
NSN 6620-01-607-5722
NSN 5910-01-348-8936
NSN 5998-00-170-6756
NSN 6150-01-099-2467