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 6105-01-627-6255
NSN 6650-01-090-0719
NSN 6110-01-454-9390
NSN 5945-01-379-3767
NSN 6610-01-605-1161
NSN 5945-00-469-6692
NSN 5910-01-420-7423
NSN 5999-01-594-8643
NSN 6110-00-788-1521
NSN 7035-01-649-8134
NSN 5965-01-424-0542
NSN 6685-00-386-8437