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 6645-01-258-6188
NSN 6685-01-331-5161
NSN 5950-00-163-1047
NSN 5945-01-446-9566
NSN 5925-00-110-3194
NSN 5920-00-816-4497
NSN 5930-00-445-1719
NSN 6650-00-003-5413
NSN 5950-01-339-7843
NSN 5975-01-605-7776
NSN 5990-00-471-9767
NSN 7035-01-281-3642