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 6650-01-236-5916
NSN 7035-00-337-8745
NSN 5930-00-517-1514
NSN 6110-01-284-0318
NSN 5835-00-104-8944
NSN 6150-01-435-0405
NSN 6685-00-155-4301
NSN 6320-01-096-6649
NSN 5905-01-528-8660
NSN 5935-01-151-5989
NSN 7035-01-648-5169
NSN 5855-01-236-9645