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 6610-01-437-2506
NSN 5935-00-888-5351
NSN 5930-01-659-4308
NSN 5950-01-463-4331
NSN 5935-00-896-0770
NSN 5960-01-154-3719
NSN 4140-00-803-8997
NSN 6620-01-246-4314
NSN 5910-00-637-2609
NSN 5960-00-193-6867
NSN 5990-01-542-4212
NSN 6610-01-110-3802