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 6220-01-422-6935
NSN 5945-00-276-9274
NSN 7035-01-448-4740
NSN 6320-01-462-2295
NSN 5960-01-426-4242
NSN 6645-01-118-5300
NSN 5930-00-194-0748
NSN 6105-00-524-3341
NSN 6110-01-494-7290
NSN 5945-01-559-2136
NSN 5965-00-919-9301
NSN 5910-01-206-4641