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 6685-01-514-6636
NSN 5999-01-038-4096
NSN 5965-01-629-8484
NSN 7035-01-434-1986
NSN 6150-01-093-6301
NSN 5990-01-174-6851
NSN 6130-01-526-9997
NSN 5925-01-439-6213
NSN 6320-00-164-4087
NSN 5960-01-107-3272
NSN 7035-01-561-3556
NSN 6150-01-294-7445