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 6135-01-062-9356
NSN 5975-01-504-9662
NSN 6105-01-114-2827
NSN 5930-01-528-6757
NSN 5920-00-445-3585
NSN 6645-00-508-5723
NSN 6620-01-147-0441
NSN 5905-01-307-9284
NSN 4140-01-155-3101
NSN 6620-01-253-0374
NSN 5985-00-598-4707
NSN 6135-01-297-5565