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 6685-01-413-9362
NSN 5910-01-452-4986
NSN 6610-01-124-8114
NSN 6620-00-084-7621
NSN 5935-01-168-7841
NSN 5998-01-503-0427
NSN 6650-01-361-6812
NSN 5945-00-905-5749
NSN 7035-00-897-7567
NSN 6130-01-090-1214
NSN 5855-00-294-7532
NSN 5855-01-366-2429