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 6685-01-126-0446
NSN 5950-01-442-3535
NSN 5855-00-300-1873
NSN 6145-01-214-8037
NSN 5960-01-088-6553
NSN 6105-01-436-2296
NSN 5990-01-498-0641
NSN 6650-01-293-0215
NSN 6145-01-325-1156
NSN 5960-00-455-9218
NSN 5998-00-440-6333
NSN 5960-00-915-6269