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 6220-01-125-0468
NSN 6620-01-437-3146
NSN 5998-00-707-5781
NSN 5945-00-091-1013
NSN 5945-00-549-5378
NSN 5975-01-287-2155
NSN 6650-01-426-4253
NSN 6650-01-417-4277
NSN 6240-00-617-9599
NSN 5990-00-495-2859
NSN 5960-00-755-7017
NSN 6105-01-473-3706