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 6650-00-078-5773
NSN 6240-00-204-0459
NSN 5895-00-924-9093
NSN 6620-00-676-2621
NSN 6240-00-677-0305
NSN 5925-01-178-8962
NSN 7035-01-290-1447
NSN 6110-00-914-2420
NSN 5935-01-555-7869
NSN 5985-01-230-5152
NSN 5910-01-606-4490
NSN 5990-01-149-0691