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 5998-01-474-5686
NSN 5905-00-492-6677
NSN 6145-01-634-0388
NSN 5950-00-517-0467
NSN 6135-00-191-6444
NSN 6685-00-203-2389
NSN 5985-01-502-9931
NSN 6650-01-481-3618
NSN 5945-01-528-8295
NSN 5910-01-061-1443
NSN 6650-01-508-8939
NSN 5910-01-359-4071