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 6105-01-567-2583
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 2925-00-671-5464
NSN 6130-00-925-2303
NSN 6320-00-908-6841
NSN 5985-01-232-1206
NSN 5996-01-274-0630
NSN 6610-00-284-3093
NSN 6110-00-006-7987
NSN 6220-01-527-1703
NSN 6610-01-290-2627
NSN 6130-01-224-1248