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 6150-01-408-4662
NSN 6110-01-096-7533
NSN 5935-00-128-8168
NSN 5835-00-247-0161
NSN 6645-01-016-1306
NSN 5925-01-034-2283
NSN 6650-01-514-0240
NSN 6150-01-247-0193
NSN 6145-01-035-1019
NSN 6150-00-632-7577
NSN 5910-00-112-7399
NSN 6220-01-347-8643