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 6220-01-634-0660
NSN 6130-01-430-4537
NSN 6685-01-046-8459
NSN 5996-00-597-2234
NSN 5935-00-186-0932
NSN 5895-00-269-3848
NSN 5905-00-510-7626
NSN 6130-00-795-5604
NSN 4140-01-525-5979
NSN 5930-01-481-4233
NSN 5935-00-261-7962
NSN 6620-01-536-7799