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 6645-01-210-0036
NSN 5835-00-055-0953
NSN 6105-01-534-5360
NSN 5945-01-278-3112
NSN 6240-01-138-6453
NSN 6220-01-259-4420
NSN 5965-00-823-8623
NSN 6110-00-221-1868
NSN 5910-00-568-5562
NSN 6130-01-369-5456
NSN 5925-01-014-9858
NSN 6145-01-525-8140