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 6110-01-509-1448
NSN 5950-01-534-8528
NSN 6610-01-474-5206
NSN 5930-01-623-6122
NSN 5835-00-113-6090
NSN 6650-01-169-9227
NSN 6150-00-051-0404
NSN 6145-00-553-6286
NSN 6320-01-631-7828
NSN 5999-00-854-9035
NSN 5935-01-308-2988
NSN 5998-01-462-2625