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 6650-01-493-6638
NSN 5835-01-170-5537
NSN 6105-00-275-0826
NSN 6135-00-660-8654
NSN 5920-01-619-5108
NSN 5950-00-725-3917
NSN 6685-00-082-1939
NSN 2925-01-097-0903
NSN 2925-01-180-2960
NSN 6650-00-144-4555
NSN 5910-01-647-5666
NSN 6150-01-354-7573