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 6645-01-475-4723
NSN 6685-00-427-7587
NSN 5945-01-027-1351
NSN 6105-01-237-2507
NSN 7035-01-226-2545
NSN 5935-01-501-6339
NSN 5835-00-454-7239
NSN 6145-00-119-8201
NSN 5910-01-556-9689
NSN 6685-01-307-3325
NSN 6135-01-205-5965
NSN 5965-01-502-7006