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 6110-01-576-9415
NSN 6150-00-952-2766
NSN 5985-01-566-5521
NSN 5996-00-202-6576
NSN 6645-01-567-8282
NSN 6620-01-016-3091
NSN 6620-01-112-6440
NSN 5835-01-281-7281
NSN 6150-01-482-7915
NSN 6150-01-209-5219
NSN 6130-00-872-5688
NSN 5910-01-112-0290