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 5920-01-606-6524
NSN 6685-00-663-9000
NSN 6320-01-615-6500
NSN 6645-00-679-8203
NSN 5965-01-613-8414
NSN 6645-00-602-5968
NSN 6650-01-500-2594
NSN 5835-01-023-8733
NSN 6620-00-169-1609
NSN 6240-01-160-7934
NSN 5910-01-357-6484
NSN 5950-01-043-9997