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 6145-01-408-5332
NSN 5855-00-106-1640
NSN 6610-01-053-6781
NSN 6685-01-424-9724
NSN 5930-00-216-7511
NSN 5935-01-286-6881
NSN 5895-01-046-6660
NSN 5895-00-457-7829
NSN 5950-01-598-8768
NSN 5935-01-034-9460
NSN 5905-01-102-2643
NSN 6150-01-227-1529