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 5965-00-244-8428
NSN 5910-01-633-9963
NSN 6320-01-141-3791
NSN 6105-00-737-0829
NSN 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 5855-01-658-4510
NSN 6650-00-153-3155
NSN 6105-01-063-6264
NSN 6135-01-392-7791
NSN 5950-01-632-8662
NSN 5925-01-451-5140
NSN 5905-01-241-7184