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 6105-01-562-2078
NSN 5835-00-572-7445
NSN 6620-01-591-6681
NSN 5975-00-624-6949
NSN 6220-01-590-7272
NSN 6620-00-464-1787
NSN 5999-01-300-6012
NSN 7035-00-421-8710
NSN 5895-00-464-7583
NSN 6685-01-061-2270
NSN 6135-00-885-6003
NSN 6645-01-013-6254