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 6105-00-331-4463
NSN 6145-00-284-1514
NSN 6220-00-497-7160
NSN 6150-01-313-9235
NSN 6685-00-468-6961
NSN 6105-00-581-5331
NSN 6240-01-255-5080
NSN 6220-01-612-5894
NSN 5960-00-707-3335
NSN 5915-01-451-3588
NSN 6610-00-834-0713
NSN 5950-00-104-7526