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 6105-00-540-5616
NSN 5930-01-147-8265
NSN 6145-01-275-7998
NSN 5895-00-954-3716
NSN 5999-00-518-1007
NSN 6150-01-584-0106
NSN 5930-01-627-0420
NSN 6145-01-537-5685
NSN 5996-00-661-1151
NSN 5905-01-327-4634
NSN 6105-01-003-9162
NSN 6645-01-250-5154