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 6110-01-532-3306
NSN 5910-01-623-9836
NSN 5950-01-420-8913
NSN 5895-01-027-7395
NSN 6645-01-435-6373
NSN 5925-01-445-5583
NSN 5915-00-617-9477
NSN 6620-00-937-5931
NSN 6240-01-442-7746
NSN 5996-01-110-4573
NSN 5905-01-072-9880
NSN 5915-01-441-2238