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 6645-01-510-3496
NSN 5920-01-501-5961
NSN 6110-01-058-5321
NSN 6610-01-498-0524
NSN 5920-01-089-3559
NSN 5835-00-233-6327
NSN 6645-01-484-9847
NSN 5925-01-464-4477
NSN 5990-01-113-8121
NSN 5990-00-428-1895
NSN 5925-01-141-6688
NSN 5920-01-392-7687