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 6130-01-627-5762
NSN 6650-00-287-5868
NSN 5930-01-588-2809
NSN 5950-01-195-3597
NSN 5895-00-081-2219
NSN 5960-01-282-2386
NSN 5920-01-453-7523
NSN 6135-01-519-7879
NSN 6320-01-345-5818
NSN 6130-01-514-5455
NSN 4140-00-930-3079
NSN 6685-01-443-2983