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 6685-01-237-5942
NSN 5990-01-411-5930
NSN 5985-01-065-4459
NSN 6650-01-202-9143
NSN 6620-01-119-9239
NSN 5996-00-905-3971
NSN 6110-00-728-4515
NSN 5855-00-962-5792
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 5895-00-688-2671
NSN 6650-01-420-7388
NSN 6145-01-181-4142