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 6645-01-521-5637
NSN 5985-00-666-2987
NSN 5915-01-410-7741
NSN 6620-00-553-8988
NSN 5945-00-100-1261
NSN 5895-01-393-2523
NSN 5975-01-211-6594
NSN 5855-01-467-3802
NSN 5915-01-425-0257
NSN 5990-00-394-3987
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 5990-01-442-3520