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 6145-01-182-3077
NSN 5930-01-211-4897
NSN 5950-01-487-3750
NSN 5990-01-314-2264
NSN 5930-01-551-9497
NSN 5935-00-079-0722
NSN 5999-01-650-0038
NSN 5835-01-457-7951
NSN 6110-01-163-6936
NSN 5930-00-445-0872
NSN 7035-01-256-9598
NSN 5945-00-012-1099