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 5998-01-243-0003
NSN 6645-01-047-3026
NSN 5930-00-609-2412
NSN 6240-01-449-1387
NSN 5990-00-972-1404
NSN 5835-01-364-6830
NSN 6650-01-217-9304
NSN 6685-00-257-0882
NSN 5975-01-360-6120
NSN 6240-01-365-7996
NSN 6320-00-480-7922
NSN 6105-00-258-2157