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 6610-00-910-3254
NSN 6650-01-347-0148
NSN 6130-01-310-8441
NSN 6610-00-256-8006
NSN 7035-01-396-3343
NSN 5999-01-542-1346
NSN 5855-00-149-0766
NSN 5920-00-224-1589
NSN 6145-01-379-8662
NSN 6150-01-344-0810
NSN 5999-00-095-3805
NSN 5998-01-230-4448