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 6610-01-303-1674
NSN 5935-01-252-4552
NSN 6685-01-387-2944
NSN 6135-01-205-5965
NSN 5996-01-270-0299
NSN 5920-00-410-4384
NSN 5935-00-610-7630
NSN 5910-01-370-7751
NSN 5935-00-938-6384
NSN 6145-01-551-5746
NSN 6650-01-581-7101
NSN 5990-01-351-2379