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 6610-01-568-0717
NSN 5930-01-489-1550
NSN 5965-00-481-5884
NSN 5835-00-233-6327
NSN 5930-01-225-6647
NSN 5915-01-152-2684
NSN 6610-01-148-8626
NSN 6645-00-485-1440
NSN 6610-01-388-8664
NSN 6610-01-225-4997
NSN 5915-01-347-4085
NSN 6110-01-129-1803