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 6650-01-391-7527
NSN 5925-01-324-4109
NSN 6150-01-623-7691
NSN 4140-01-546-6383
NSN 5910-00-431-8973
NSN 6150-00-161-2412
NSN 5935-01-268-9713
NSN 5960-00-400-2222
NSN 2925-00-540-9918
NSN 5975-01-264-3059
NSN 6610-01-643-6652
NSN 5996-00-632-0117