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 6130-01-154-5619
NSN 6150-01-495-3764
NSN 5920-00-453-4377
NSN 6105-01-562-7784
NSN 5996-00-620-2940
NSN 5910-00-456-0824
NSN 6240-01-221-9093
NSN 6685-01-029-3416
NSN 6145-00-033-2997
NSN 5985-01-147-2862
NSN 6620-00-052-8003
NSN 5935-01-418-0771