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 6645-01-139-0156
NSN 5996-00-285-3720
NSN 6145-01-583-8972
NSN 7035-01-091-7481
NSN 6610-01-396-5628
NSN 5915-01-160-8175
NSN 5975-01-445-1632
NSN 5960-01-313-0681
NSN 6650-01-582-5388
NSN 6110-00-411-0217
NSN 6110-01-216-0973
NSN 6145-01-023-7719