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 6220-01-234-0987
NSN 5996-01-184-6896
NSN 5925-01-602-0624
NSN 5945-01-266-1983
NSN 5975-00-632-4323
NSN 6105-01-314-9680
NSN 5998-00-155-6002
NSN 6685-01-471-3554
NSN 5935-00-429-1032
NSN 5935-01-583-1584
NSN 6650-00-973-1176
NSN 5915-00-881-3735