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 6110-01-332-9027
NSN 5905-01-166-8530
NSN 2925-01-231-6312
NSN 5960-00-258-9292
NSN 5925-00-144-0482
NSN 5855-01-657-7657
NSN 6220-01-463-6068
NSN 5990-01-126-5824
NSN 5985-00-010-9362
NSN 5905-01-388-1451
NSN 5999-00-610-5384
NSN 6240-01-230-8070