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 6685-01-658-5476
NSN 5920-01-511-5327
NSN 5990-01-227-6526
NSN 6685-00-870-8097
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 5960-01-458-6484
NSN 7035-01-232-7263
NSN 5960-01-173-7956
NSN 6620-01-431-0706
NSN 5835-01-525-3220
NSN 5925-01-448-3580
NSN 6620-00-262-3113