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 6610-01-263-0425
NSN 5935-01-276-6873
NSN 6220-00-135-3272
NSN 5975-01-519-5218
NSN 6105-01-085-0989
NSN 6150-01-552-2872
NSN 5950-01-313-7074
NSN 5855-01-254-3110
NSN 6240-01-397-8713
NSN 6135-01-592-2765
NSN 6220-00-787-3277
NSN 5915-01-654-4812