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 6650-01-381-3542
NSN 6610-01-591-4374
NSN 6135-00-223-9563
NSN 5965-00-396-3411
NSN 5998-01-190-0704
NSN 5915-00-679-1989
NSN 5835-01-463-2334
NSN 5985-01-215-2210
NSN 6110-01-246-1994
NSN 6685-01-577-1202
NSN 6610-00-884-2824
NSN 6685-00-369-6912