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 5950-01-492-9908
NSN 6105-01-502-9273
NSN 6645-01-306-7243
NSN 7035-01-421-4446
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 6110-01-643-3468
NSN 5998-01-437-7196
NSN 6685-01-533-5681
NSN 5905-01-272-9789
NSN 6620-00-132-1151
NSN 6105-01-530-3505
NSN 5920-01-148-8359