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 6105-01-587-8522
NSN 5965-01-325-0627
NSN 5930-01-207-0082
NSN 5999-01-451-4906
NSN 5910-01-510-9959
NSN 7035-01-083-0282
NSN 6620-00-778-7405
NSN 5960-00-303-3675
NSN 5910-01-222-2474
NSN 5999-01-111-9739
NSN 5905-01-438-4427
NSN 5895-01-507-3223