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 5996-00-459-0652
NSN 6685-01-543-8471
NSN 6685-00-358-1299
NSN 5950-01-224-3579
NSN 5920-00-050-0599
NSN 6685-01-132-4637
NSN 5996-00-312-7349
NSN 5950-01-089-6742
NSN 5996-01-268-8577
NSN 5985-01-132-7137
NSN 6645-01-258-0370
NSN 6620-00-849-0450