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 6110-01-579-0063
NSN 5930-01-014-5949
NSN 5935-01-436-1046
NSN 6130-00-761-9113
NSN 5996-00-917-6899
NSN 2925-01-535-7235
NSN 6135-01-534-3007
NSN 5895-01-157-9330
NSN 5930-00-246-5046
NSN 5990-01-270-3209
NSN 6110-01-467-0459
NSN 5835-01-100-3265