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 6650-01-462-5808
NSN 5905-01-279-0189
NSN 5999-01-389-0922
NSN 5950-00-919-8689
NSN 5910-01-452-1542
NSN 5905-01-095-1485
NSN 5920-01-624-7882
NSN 5950-01-262-6598
NSN 6145-01-533-5559
NSN 5945-00-185-6609
NSN 5975-00-582-1460
NSN 5985-01-618-4037