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 6220-00-843-1441
NSN 6130-01-319-7164
NSN 5920-01-462-1593
NSN 5835-01-632-6627
NSN 5996-01-625-0427
NSN 5835-01-023-8733
NSN 5895-01-053-8343
NSN 5990-00-824-0236
NSN 5965-00-757-3403
NSN 5855-01-147-6024
NSN 6220-01-059-1393
NSN 4140-01-280-5364