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 6220-01-042-9773
NSN 5960-00-880-9589
NSN 5930-01-057-3814
NSN 6130-01-606-9557
NSN 6610-01-336-2787
NSN 6150-01-659-8970
NSN 5960-01-052-6997
NSN 5855-01-545-3659
NSN 6150-01-358-2113
NSN 4140-01-498-6292
NSN 6645-01-528-5337
NSN 6620-01-247-4127