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 6220-00-842-2483
NSN 6240-01-342-6367
NSN 5998-00-006-4717
NSN 6105-01-053-2784
NSN 6220-01-533-7593
NSN 5998-01-296-5931
NSN 5855-01-230-4665
NSN 6620-00-589-0071
NSN 5960-01-347-6791
NSN 5930-01-157-8798
NSN 5915-01-137-6440
NSN 6620-01-599-2011