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 6105-01-067-8377
NSN 6650-00-883-4790
NSN 6135-01-132-6310
NSN 6620-00-536-5028
NSN 6150-01-523-5707
NSN 6130-01-012-2703
NSN 5935-01-580-3879
NSN 5915-01-012-2964
NSN 4140-01-535-5269
NSN 5935-01-436-3913
NSN 5920-01-473-2349
NSN 6320-01-600-5808