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 6105-01-376-5467
NSN 5905-00-695-6179
NSN 5965-01-064-0263
NSN 5895-00-258-9135
NSN 5945-01-154-3143
NSN 5930-00-246-6314
NSN 6110-01-534-6435
NSN 6620-00-545-5689
NSN 5998-01-100-3496
NSN 5895-01-069-8851
NSN 6135-01-176-2206
NSN 5855-00-252-5743