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 6105-01-608-3125
NSN 5910-00-923-9752
NSN 5920-01-488-7965
NSN 6650-01-290-8705
NSN 5985-01-344-6488
NSN 6105-00-769-0231
NSN 5930-01-290-4762
NSN 6685-01-592-2768
NSN 6610-00-081-2365
NSN 6320-01-036-2598
NSN 6110-00-983-5927
NSN 6135-01-309-5765