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 7035-01-336-0464
NSN 5965-00-058-6751
NSN 6130-01-572-2049
NSN 6145-01-458-3619
NSN 6135-00-100-0485
NSN 5935-00-598-6126
NSN 5985-01-391-7122
NSN 6220-01-423-8319
NSN 6610-00-764-4015
NSN 5905-01-105-9904
NSN 5945-01-192-0581
NSN 5996-00-213-7121