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 6105-01-260-3629
NSN 6220-01-119-0742
NSN 6685-01-217-0284
NSN 5910-00-417-0825
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 5998-00-659-3728
NSN 5996-00-212-8004
NSN 5950-01-567-7424
NSN 6110-01-217-2870
NSN 6220-00-270-6996
NSN 5950-00-276-8584
NSN 5960-00-632-8240