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 6650-01-116-4650
NSN 6130-01-078-6339
NSN 6650-00-422-2958
NSN 6110-01-449-4596
NSN 5996-01-535-6443
NSN 5960-01-425-1454
NSN 5999-01-262-4816
NSN 6135-01-367-6203
NSN 6220-01-129-8388
NSN 6110-00-820-1660
NSN 6130-00-201-6600
NSN 6240-01-395-9162