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 6105-00-026-9909
NSN 5930-01-423-3697
NSN 6240-00-208-2379
NSN 5945-01-275-8448
NSN 6110-00-986-8993
NSN 5930-00-068-4309
NSN 6220-00-536-8763
NSN 7035-01-352-6235
NSN 5990-01-459-9533
NSN 6105-01-576-3221
NSN 6645-01-602-3813
NSN 6220-01-372-9226