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 6645-01-142-2416
NSN 5905-01-084-7264
NSN 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6220-01-397-7416
NSN 6130-01-168-2793
NSN 5960-01-384-1300
NSN 5925-01-487-0356
NSN 5965-01-398-3099
NSN 5975-01-429-8609
NSN 5985-00-270-8456
NSN 7035-01-330-6768