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 6320-01-574-1915
NSN 5930-00-036-0381
NSN 6110-01-141-7745
NSN 7035-00-275-5604
NSN 5975-00-051-1711
NSN 5999-01-090-0124
NSN 4140-01-227-4674
NSN 5935-01-279-0065
NSN 5935-01-493-6457
NSN 5965-01-113-9061
NSN 6685-01-125-3349
NSN 6620-00-986-9627