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 6645-01-054-3969
NSN 2925-01-076-5219
NSN 2925-01-339-6972
NSN 6610-01-071-4097
NSN 5950-00-329-8009
NSN 5999-01-289-1235
NSN 6135-00-715-4001
NSN 5965-01-378-7335
NSN 6620-00-803-2423
NSN 6135-01-238-2878
NSN 5935-01-463-4392
NSN 6610-01-278-8377