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 6220-01-178-0171
NSN 5920-00-700-2942
NSN 6610-01-155-2661
NSN 5960-01-104-3426
NSN 5915-01-225-8931
NSN 5965-00-620-7154
NSN 5925-01-414-4678
NSN 6130-01-201-9914
NSN 5855-01-156-0417
NSN 6145-01-554-8886
NSN 6110-01-120-9705
NSN 2925-01-606-3201