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 6645-01-595-7659
NSN 5935-00-203-2794
NSN 5950-00-236-8066
NSN 5985-00-630-1613
NSN 5935-01-619-5713
NSN 5895-00-824-0305
NSN 6685-01-649-8166
NSN 5950-01-068-4137
NSN 5835-01-242-9806
NSN 4140-01-659-6573
NSN 6685-00-181-9928
NSN 5925-01-017-1036