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 6220-00-099-9192
NSN 5855-00-494-9581
NSN 6620-01-584-9653
NSN 7035-00-794-0792
NSN 6240-01-025-1208
NSN 5950-00-400-3398
NSN 4140-01-598-7578
NSN 5855-01-118-6001
NSN 5985-01-471-1651
NSN 5998-00-408-2028
NSN 6150-01-541-9101
NSN 7035-00-481-5182