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 5905-01-604-3892
NSN 6220-01-202-8907
NSN 6645-01-380-6111
NSN 5855-01-400-1590
NSN 6645-00-868-1246
NSN 6685-01-296-1848
NSN 7035-00-541-8516
NSN 6685-01-181-6142
NSN 6130-01-035-5467
NSN 5950-01-361-3728
NSN 6240-01-308-6368
NSN 6110-01-633-9660