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 5996-01-314-8613
NSN 6150-00-221-9628
NSN 5945-01-469-6287
NSN 6650-01-509-8018
NSN 6145-00-286-9588
NSN 5910-01-198-1519
NSN 5895-01-625-5935
NSN 5945-00-879-6797
NSN 5920-01-378-8924
NSN 5905-00-312-4512
NSN 5915-01-147-4830
NSN 6150-01-521-8628