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 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 5975-01-578-7685
NSN 6130-01-634-0603
NSN 6130-01-162-0262
NSN 5925-00-977-5843
NSN 6320-00-853-1920
NSN 5905-01-142-5150
NSN 6135-00-756-6149
NSN 6105-00-827-0616
NSN 5835-00-269-2232
NSN 5985-01-411-0590
NSN 7035-01-583-0497