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 6105-01-581-4009
NSN 6145-01-164-9824
NSN 6645-01-280-5395
NSN 5965-00-907-5183
NSN 6105-00-221-5049
NSN 6320-01-295-9992
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 5925-01-088-0654
NSN 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 5920-00-911-3452
NSN 6130-01-432-2855
NSN 5935-00-130-2599