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 6240-01-365-4529
NSN 6620-00-109-9498
NSN 5930-01-200-8347
NSN 5935-00-419-2530
NSN 6240-01-088-0389
NSN 6650-01-141-3882
NSN 5910-01-625-2292
NSN 5990-01-131-9055
NSN 5960-00-710-7217
NSN 5910-01-623-8178
NSN 5935-01-641-3655
NSN 6650-01-623-3078