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 6610-01-524-9576
NSN 6645-00-004-4562
NSN 5965-01-367-7380
NSN 5915-01-245-5302
NSN 7035-01-544-6858
NSN 6610-00-433-8700
NSN 5960-01-375-6815
NSN 5975-01-229-1874
NSN 5905-01-400-5968
NSN 5975-01-399-3008
NSN 7035-00-585-2113
NSN 5950-00-553-9439