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 6220-01-075-6547
NSN 6610-00-081-2365
NSN 5895-00-148-2977
NSN 6645-00-510-6643
NSN 6130-01-542-4989
NSN 6150-00-187-7287
NSN 5999-00-527-8767
NSN 6620-01-507-5283
NSN 6105-01-600-0366
NSN 6650-01-290-8705
NSN 6110-01-205-7204
NSN 5910-01-397-8532