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 5930-01-238-4984
NSN 6650-00-406-2645
NSN 6320-00-857-4073
NSN 5975-01-431-5834
NSN 5905-01-554-5608
NSN 5930-01-626-3869
NSN 5985-01-181-1679
NSN 5910-01-136-1281
NSN 6320-01-523-4954
NSN 6650-00-992-4540
NSN 6110-01-187-4677
NSN 4140-00-867-6617