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 6620-01-044-3371
NSN 6650-01-252-4155
NSN 5985-01-167-0966
NSN 5950-01-464-2507
NSN 6150-00-011-8425
NSN 6220-00-173-7200
NSN 5930-00-924-5601
NSN 6150-00-811-7703
NSN 5950-01-119-2932
NSN 5835-00-572-7445
NSN 6150-00-964-7303
NSN 6220-01-159-6204