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 6145-01-044-1635
NSN 5925-01-462-2209
NSN 6110-01-311-1715
NSN 5835-01-632-6627
NSN 5935-00-155-8680
NSN 6620-01-237-5603
NSN 6145-00-724-7747
NSN 6240-01-519-8781
NSN 5895-01-004-9861
NSN 5905-00-001-5724
NSN 5945-01-325-7999
NSN 6685-01-533-1505