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 6620-01-330-3646
NSN 5965-01-301-2553
NSN 6130-01-573-7483
NSN 5905-01-047-8991
NSN 6220-01-589-0058
NSN 5935-01-574-9992
NSN 5895-01-208-1161
NSN 5965-00-139-4870
NSN 5990-01-581-5103
NSN 6110-00-606-9297
NSN 5930-01-126-9728
NSN 6110-01-094-0822