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 6240-01-293-0584
NSN 5975-00-836-4761
NSN 5945-01-561-9639
NSN 6645-01-227-2036
NSN 6135-00-826-4798
NSN 5996-01-407-7374
NSN 6150-00-862-9095
NSN 5990-01-277-9753
NSN 5998-01-572-5367
NSN 6610-00-536-4977
NSN 6110-01-496-9979
NSN 6610-01-535-0310