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 6150-01-492-5246
NSN 6150-00-553-0211
NSN 6685-01-268-2294
NSN 6145-01-445-7167
NSN 5895-01-502-6988
NSN 5935-01-361-4947
NSN 6220-00-905-1488
NSN 6220-01-498-1369
NSN 5925-01-363-1365
NSN 5925-00-529-3950
NSN 5990-01-081-3845
NSN 6240-01-084-1517