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 6620-01-228-1571
NSN 5965-00-617-5731
NSN 5960-01-399-4327
NSN 6130-01-137-2181
NSN 5965-00-620-7154
NSN 6320-01-176-8367
NSN 5965-01-193-0420
NSN 5975-01-469-6062
NSN 5996-01-390-2125
NSN 5835-01-414-3258
NSN 6650-00-918-4156
NSN 6650-01-374-4923