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 6110-01-534-6435
NSN 5999-00-518-4503
NSN 5975-00-931-9404
NSN 5996-01-624-1409
NSN 6645-01-570-3215
NSN 5996-01-633-7979
NSN 6240-01-186-3273
NSN 5920-01-131-7567
NSN 6110-01-486-9725
NSN 5930-00-516-1217
NSN 6135-01-443-4484
NSN 6650-01-564-8053