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 6220-00-071-4598
NSN 6620-00-602-5832
NSN 2925-01-632-5913
NSN 5965-00-138-8391
NSN 6220-01-188-1806
NSN 6685-00-180-8999
NSN 6610-01-495-0596
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6145-01-443-3282
NSN 6145-01-157-3488
NSN 5945-00-670-0444
NSN 5996-00-932-2187