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 6220-01-613-6374
NSN 5925-01-463-8594
NSN 6145-01-390-8474
NSN 6240-00-089-8364
NSN 5945-01-072-1058
NSN 5965-01-516-9960
NSN 6220-01-159-0442
NSN 5990-01-510-4699
NSN 6610-01-555-0842
NSN 5935-01-457-1639
NSN 6105-00-181-0678
NSN 5996-01-090-2911