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 6145-01-330-9933
NSN 6105-01-545-8159
NSN 6240-00-925-2194
NSN 5935-01-454-7749
NSN 5920-01-065-1824
NSN 6645-00-542-1206
NSN 5915-00-082-7779
NSN 5960-01-493-3948
NSN 6645-01-014-9205
NSN 6610-01-342-2319
NSN 5990-01-054-3332
NSN 6685-01-198-0875