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 6620-01-557-6454
NSN 5975-00-864-5267
NSN 6135-01-567-0739
NSN 5960-01-142-1995
NSN 5945-00-723-7317
NSN 5910-01-224-4524
NSN 5996-01-464-9791
NSN 5985-00-960-4595
NSN 5855-01-169-9228
NSN 6610-01-259-5296
NSN 6610-00-558-0480
NSN 5915-01-212-9590