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 6130-00-442-0286
NSN 5945-01-519-8887
NSN 5945-00-144-8073
NSN 6135-00-405-1989
NSN 5895-01-347-2624
NSN 5855-01-098-9038
NSN 6150-00-596-9882
NSN 5895-01-528-7708
NSN 5996-01-538-8275
NSN 5945-01-067-7955
NSN 6130-00-392-1992
NSN 6610-00-004-2879