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 7035-01-311-8424
NSN 5965-01-241-0553
NSN 5965-01-357-2317
NSN 6645-01-048-3014
NSN 5990-01-582-1977
NSN 5965-01-658-2940
NSN 6130-01-442-4091
NSN 5935-01-058-7677
NSN 5975-00-549-9431
NSN 6110-00-905-4858
NSN 6110-01-322-6428
NSN 7035-01-334-5855