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 6240-01-577-3501
NSN 7035-01-398-3494
NSN 5910-01-612-1927
NSN 5930-00-132-1221
NSN 6685-01-431-7927
NSN 5950-01-128-3306
NSN 5920-00-848-9771
NSN 5998-00-351-9403
NSN 5945-01-167-8498
NSN 5930-01-618-7379
NSN 6645-01-108-6333
NSN 6135-01-380-4396