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 6610-00-584-5055
NSN 6685-01-200-1013
NSN 5990-00-697-8883
NSN 6220-01-437-2716
NSN 6130-00-279-5058
NSN 6320-00-456-0836
NSN 5998-01-337-1149
NSN 5910-01-218-5987
NSN 5905-01-271-7697
NSN 5985-00-060-8300
NSN 6685-01-375-3819
NSN 6110-01-487-6339