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 2925-01-592-4782
NSN 5835-01-219-0586
NSN 6105-00-153-7967
NSN 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 6320-00-676-9387
NSN 5960-01-201-6316
NSN 7035-01-408-8698
NSN 6685-01-503-5062
NSN 4140-01-411-3710
NSN 5985-00-905-6609
NSN 5960-00-275-7497
NSN 6320-01-330-4634