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 6620-01-223-9025
NSN 5965-01-142-1807
NSN 5998-01-312-8533
NSN 6650-01-194-6997
NSN 6240-01-429-9826
NSN 5950-00-959-2670
NSN 5930-00-319-4719
NSN 6320-00-519-0770
NSN 5975-01-314-4975
NSN 5999-00-412-1596
NSN 6220-00-291-3722
NSN 6220-00-292-6775