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 6685-01-059-5060
NSN 6685-01-658-5476
NSN 6145-01-652-5933
NSN 6110-01-570-5761
NSN 5975-01-468-6319
NSN 6650-00-168-1502
NSN 5925-01-554-3786
NSN 6130-01-214-0366
NSN 5895-00-319-8451
NSN 6150-00-587-7196
NSN 7035-01-435-7962
NSN 5935-01-366-1216