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 6650-01-188-8028
NSN 5950-01-648-6384
NSN 5935-00-737-1268
NSN 6320-01-018-7073
NSN 5925-01-529-6189
NSN 5910-01-409-2852
NSN 5905-00-951-8897
NSN 6320-01-470-6826
NSN 6685-01-151-3275
NSN 5945-00-226-5840
NSN 6240-00-469-6242
NSN 5905-01-345-7879