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 6240-01-581-2944
NSN 6130-00-915-1937
NSN 6105-00-501-7681
NSN 7035-00-009-8705
NSN 5965-01-292-0035
NSN 5950-01-358-8957
NSN 5945-00-938-3994
NSN 6105-01-589-9754
NSN 5905-01-218-5967
NSN 2925-00-572-0454
NSN 5930-00-910-8111
NSN 6130-01-254-3934