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 6610-01-151-1540
NSN 6645-01-086-7668
NSN 5945-01-390-0637
NSN 5905-01-600-0939
NSN 6685-01-345-8162
NSN 4140-00-563-7648
NSN 6685-00-870-0057
NSN 5925-01-617-8590
NSN 5999-00-172-0985
NSN 5950-01-446-6484
NSN 5945-01-547-6646
NSN 5945-01-479-6331