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 6610-01-027-1641
NSN 5996-00-594-8587
NSN 5950-00-010-9665
NSN 5985-01-181-3395
NSN 6150-00-460-5393
NSN 5965-01-238-9287
NSN 6650-01-621-9695
NSN 5996-00-489-9635
NSN 6105-00-202-2469
NSN 5999-01-519-8378
NSN 6105-00-242-4647
NSN 5835-01-435-4139