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 6130-00-369-1627
NSN 5975-01-422-2033
NSN 6620-01-462-1625
NSN 6685-01-554-6579
NSN 5990-00-210-2953
NSN 5996-00-566-3861
NSN 6685-01-549-3775
NSN 5985-00-144-8170
NSN 5895-00-196-5690
NSN 5985-00-617-7702
NSN 6620-01-062-1662
NSN 5985-01-147-1667