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 6130-01-300-3356
NSN 5975-00-684-8188
NSN 5965-01-294-1396
NSN 5855-01-646-5962
NSN 5915-00-442-4275
NSN 5985-01-629-8261
NSN 5950-00-530-7273
NSN 5985-00-329-7607
NSN 6685-00-140-0890
NSN 5895-00-932-5491
NSN 6145-00-825-7316
NSN 6135-01-439-8669