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 6620-01-599-2011
NSN 6145-01-597-9511
NSN 5975-01-288-7317
NSN 5905-00-953-1908
NSN 5935-01-647-2948
NSN 5910-00-826-9192
NSN 5960-00-850-9623
NSN 5996-01-502-6045
NSN 6145-01-275-1214
NSN 5855-01-656-5299
NSN 5960-00-752-0249
NSN 6685-00-999-8702