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 6110-01-101-6722
NSN 5905-00-982-1334
NSN 6240-01-132-7623
NSN 6105-00-219-2925
NSN 5998-00-558-6389
NSN 6645-01-529-4411
NSN 6105-00-246-5311
NSN 5895-01-570-1422
NSN 5999-01-472-2515
NSN 5996-01-487-2840
NSN 5975-00-110-6171
NSN 5925-00-448-0543