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 6130-01-057-3396
NSN 6130-01-173-7183
NSN 5930-00-284-4181
NSN 5895-00-735-9107
NSN 5950-01-360-5338
NSN 5950-01-278-3397
NSN 5985-00-061-0233
NSN 6135-01-357-0621
NSN 6320-00-089-9425
NSN 5930-00-757-4317
NSN 5950-01-104-5445
NSN 6145-01-026-3827