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 7035-01-442-3987
NSN 5965-01-056-7225
NSN 5915-00-524-6894
NSN 6105-01-411-5970
NSN 5950-01-517-0381
NSN 6220-01-655-7368
NSN 6685-01-461-6992
NSN 5855-01-159-1654
NSN 5925-00-379-0920
NSN 5905-01-132-6838
NSN 5998-01-399-4085
NSN 6145-01-188-2789