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 6220-01-624-2825
NSN 4140-01-375-4676
NSN 6135-00-422-3967
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 5930-01-247-5374
NSN 6240-01-221-1378
NSN 5998-00-233-6401
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 5935-00-707-7988
NSN 5985-00-642-1083
NSN 6105-01-096-1125
NSN 5915-00-765-0558