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 6610-01-608-0004
NSN 6130-01-551-5496
NSN 5998-00-056-6626
NSN 5920-01-447-4265
NSN 7035-01-252-5919
NSN 5960-01-539-1956
NSN 4140-00-322-9987
NSN 6620-01-175-3429
NSN 5915-01-050-9080
NSN 5975-01-549-1134
NSN 5945-00-635-3502
NSN 5985-01-547-5953