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 6650-01-332-7634
NSN 5996-00-583-9498
NSN 5998-01-031-3202
NSN 5999-00-173-4839
NSN 4140-01-007-7336
NSN 5915-01-123-4283
NSN 6105-00-045-7930
NSN 6110-01-288-0517
NSN 6620-01-168-2557
NSN 5999-01-192-5495
NSN 5975-01-646-2711
NSN 6645-01-102-2321