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 6610-01-344-0972
NSN 6145-01-040-6050
NSN 4140-00-001-1536
NSN 5895-01-659-1357
NSN 6220-01-367-0567
NSN 6240-01-657-4133
NSN 5990-01-089-9694
NSN 5985-00-797-0892
NSN 5835-01-584-4408
NSN 5935-00-051-9704
NSN 5895-01-065-1659
NSN 6220-00-205-2040