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 6150-01-535-0669
NSN 5930-01-051-0539
NSN 5895-00-355-8887
NSN 5925-01-388-9679
NSN 5855-01-386-7323
NSN 5915-00-525-4615
NSN 5975-00-306-3290
NSN 5905-00-081-6978
NSN 6130-00-269-8273
NSN 5910-01-062-0518
NSN 6220-00-116-8464
NSN 5945-01-323-4775