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 6150-01-322-4740
NSN 5930-01-252-8687
NSN 5985-01-392-3291
NSN 5915-00-968-7515
NSN 5930-01-550-5127
NSN 5960-01-536-6398
NSN 6130-01-127-6266
NSN 5910-01-227-4468
NSN 5835-01-116-2369
NSN 5998-01-115-9214
NSN 6220-00-003-1644
NSN 5960-01-408-6290