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 6130-01-137-4187
NSN 5990-01-332-6722
NSN 6240-01-313-2229
NSN 5945-00-070-1890
NSN 6220-01-277-8297
NSN 5950-01-230-0462
NSN 6620-01-250-1692
NSN 6105-01-592-3213
NSN 5950-00-890-9775
NSN 6145-00-286-9588
NSN 2925-01-522-5631
NSN 5996-00-581-5810