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 6105-01-614-4685
NSN 5975-01-380-7621
NSN 6150-01-422-6604
NSN 6145-01-047-4345
NSN 5910-01-361-1917
NSN 6110-00-525-3418
NSN 5835-01-097-3284
NSN 4140-01-034-4185
NSN 6620-01-315-1159
NSN 5996-01-493-5671
NSN 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 6620-01-421-3917