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 6320-01-386-3491
NSN 5935-00-312-2576
NSN 6645-00-200-2322
NSN 6110-01-411-6000
NSN 5855-01-493-6639
NSN 5965-01-350-5105
NSN 6105-01-461-8426
NSN 5935-00-617-0250
NSN 5935-01-489-6054
NSN 6650-01-614-7328
NSN 5996-01-146-5765
NSN 5925-01-076-4458