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 5855-01-620-0629
NSN 2925-01-497-6192
NSN 6110-00-237-4862
NSN 6220-01-104-9033
NSN 5945-01-444-5099
NSN 5930-00-164-5274
NSN 5930-01-089-6713
NSN 5960-01-478-9493
NSN 6240-00-767-2389
NSN 6220-00-544-7855
NSN 6130-00-611-9450
NSN 5925-01-207-3506