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 6685-00-968-8200
NSN 6620-01-398-8986
NSN 5855-00-256-5562
NSN 6685-01-507-4283
NSN 5990-00-450-9872
NSN 7035-01-515-3490
NSN 6650-00-067-3572
NSN 5965-00-045-3440
NSN 5930-00-012-2357
NSN 5965-01-063-7894
NSN 6145-01-620-5837
NSN 6620-01-438-0415