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 6645-00-256-4072
NSN 6145-01-497-2147
NSN 6610-00-374-1563
NSN 6135-01-400-2947
NSN 6150-01-433-5587
NSN 6220-01-040-3624
NSN 6320-01-449-1014
NSN 5855-01-624-1584
NSN 6240-00-821-5125
NSN 6685-01-265-5107
NSN 5925-01-559-1427
NSN 5999-00-470-7849