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 6650-01-399-8552
NSN 5965-01-329-7890
NSN 5999-01-607-7808
NSN 5999-01-383-6984
NSN 5925-00-064-9873
NSN 5835-00-752-6065
NSN 6220-00-285-8104
NSN 5855-01-069-4126
NSN 5945-01-106-1703
NSN 5945-01-343-6899
NSN 5945-01-088-2496
NSN 6130-00-482-1257