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 7035-01-390-1132
NSN 6610-01-351-0072
NSN 5945-00-104-5922
NSN 5905-01-233-8659
NSN 5960-00-882-5542
NSN 5960-01-640-6473
NSN 5835-01-608-4285
NSN 6620-01-319-8178
NSN 6610-00-226-4710
NSN 5998-01-394-5424
NSN 6645-01-489-5426
NSN 5925-00-096-4433