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 6220-01-504-4448
NSN 7035-01-268-5732
NSN 5985-01-186-0807
NSN 6105-01-506-6418
NSN 2925-00-383-3523
NSN 5915-01-388-4296
NSN 5855-01-352-7033
NSN 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 5960-01-306-4606
NSN 5925-01-280-4463
NSN 5905-01-578-6998
NSN 5965-00-863-6031