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 6320-01-643-0850
NSN 6130-00-343-1660
NSN 6145-01-383-0482
NSN 6650-01-336-2866
NSN 6240-01-143-4812
NSN 5985-01-107-1988
NSN 5985-01-496-4074
NSN 5960-00-848-1900
NSN 6110-00-865-3168
NSN 6130-01-331-0019
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 6240-00-072-9966