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 6320-01-366-5157
NSN 5905-01-274-5648
NSN 6645-00-230-4396
NSN 5975-01-187-0810
NSN 5925-01-044-5508
NSN 5945-00-593-1736
NSN 6645-01-278-6973
NSN 6135-00-451-0709
NSN 5945-00-794-7957
NSN 5950-01-601-4026
NSN 5999-00-206-7317
NSN 2925-00-228-8854