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 6110-00-916-9582
NSN 5910-01-340-8584
NSN 6135-01-625-0765
NSN 6150-01-654-6240
NSN 6610-00-840-6187
NSN 5835-00-065-6757
NSN 6685-00-548-5460
NSN 6105-01-483-1506
NSN 6320-01-558-8844
NSN 5835-00-247-0161
NSN 6110-00-818-2457
NSN 5985-01-212-9180