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 5835-01-558-9444
NSN 5910-01-263-4951
NSN 6240-01-100-3696
NSN 5945-01-634-0588
NSN 5998-00-079-5068
NSN 6220-01-007-1912
NSN 6650-01-265-0650
NSN 7035-01-327-4456
NSN 5975-00-723-0390
NSN 7035-01-266-3490
NSN 6145-00-493-4073
NSN 5950-01-372-5396