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 6620-01-468-0362
NSN 5905-01-166-0136
NSN 6240-00-402-4481
NSN 5905-01-163-8680
NSN 5855-01-508-6917
NSN 6130-00-580-3725
NSN 5905-01-227-1783
NSN 6150-00-278-7070
NSN 6130-01-516-8895
NSN 5999-01-554-5905
NSN 6105-00-726-2754
NSN 5999-01-327-4252