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 7035-01-037-7400
NSN 6220-01-565-3212
NSN 7035-01-492-6799
NSN 5945-00-541-7833
NSN 6110-00-518-2998
NSN 4140-01-197-7658
NSN 5965-01-296-8991
NSN 6105-00-338-0868
NSN 5985-00-099-0071
NSN 5930-00-226-6503
NSN 6240-01-539-2806
NSN 6240-01-649-4420