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 5905-01-094-2768
NSN 5960-00-008-6503
NSN 6645-01-435-6373
NSN 5965-01-289-6436
NSN 5905-01-535-9930
NSN 6110-01-606-1647
NSN 6220-00-762-8944
NSN 5835-01-113-8731
NSN 5950-01-546-9053
NSN 5935-01-653-1632
NSN 5945-01-363-3258
NSN 6645-00-068-3536