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 6110-01-464-0236
NSN 5965-01-533-7661
NSN 2925-01-053-5697
NSN 6320-00-391-5906
NSN 5985-01-444-1323
NSN 5945-00-159-1526
NSN 6645-00-086-9346
NSN 5945-01-613-7594
NSN 6135-01-610-7335
NSN 6320-01-309-9595
NSN 5895-01-061-9290
NSN 5915-00-452-2227