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 5930-01-360-1484
NSN 6610-00-430-5208
NSN 6110-00-075-2426
NSN 5895-01-488-5049
NSN 6240-00-978-9752
NSN 5996-01-270-1033
NSN 6645-01-385-7033
NSN 6110-01-197-9850
NSN 6135-01-222-0703
NSN 6130-00-518-1884
NSN 5945-01-306-6205
NSN 5835-01-498-9410