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 6220-01-225-7830
NSN 5905-01-104-5320
NSN 6130-01-145-9022
NSN 6110-00-455-6781
NSN 6135-01-333-6737
NSN 6320-00-905-0543
NSN 5945-01-585-4498
NSN 5915-01-502-6623
NSN 2925-00-995-9481
NSN 5920-00-518-1793
NSN 5895-00-427-6159
NSN 5905-00-916-0356