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 6130-01-294-9894
NSN 5985-01-142-9611
NSN 6110-01-230-6331
NSN 6105-00-406-3097
NSN 6150-00-910-9108
NSN 5915-01-100-3652
NSN 6145-00-263-1855
NSN 5855-01-279-9938
NSN 6650-00-850-3312
NSN 5905-01-381-6386
NSN 6685-00-364-0821
NSN 5855-00-912-3885