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 6145-01-249-3133
NSN 5960-01-231-9119
NSN 5996-01-531-6491
NSN 6685-00-138-7250
NSN 5960-00-275-2990
NSN 5935-01-074-7486
NSN 6240-01-259-4265
NSN 6135-01-122-4448
NSN 6650-01-237-4689
NSN 5905-00-646-7903
NSN 5925-01-419-0832
NSN 6240-01-207-3863