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 6610-00-388-9188
NSN 5910-01-543-0039
NSN 5925-00-566-4169
NSN 6145-00-466-2790
NSN 6650-01-132-6860
NSN 4140-01-414-7093
NSN 5930-01-578-6958
NSN 5915-01-259-2044
NSN 5855-01-552-4759
NSN 6320-01-366-5157
NSN 5915-01-414-9915
NSN 6645-01-323-1956