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 6150-01-495-0652
NSN 5985-01-012-0948
NSN 6620-00-181-6391
NSN 5996-01-472-2858
NSN 6145-00-246-2424
NSN 5985-00-419-0342
NSN 6240-00-287-1988
NSN 7035-01-432-2424
NSN 6685-00-637-8553
NSN 5998-01-018-9826
NSN 5920-00-149-0013
NSN 5960-01-242-9801