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 6150-01-447-3064
NSN 5985-00-277-7371
NSN 5910-01-197-2848
NSN 5925-01-413-6811
NSN 6135-01-540-3385
NSN 5895-01-578-1075
NSN 5920-01-369-0108
NSN 5905-01-459-1484
NSN 6135-01-299-0778
NSN 6650-01-471-4048
NSN 6110-01-566-7746
NSN 5935-01-518-8953