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 6130-01-109-7878
NSN 5965-00-023-0944
NSN 6220-01-394-4179
NSN 5895-01-229-7431
NSN 5855-01-463-6052
NSN 6130-01-519-8629
NSN 6610-01-046-1117
NSN 5915-00-309-0514
NSN 5996-01-326-0330
NSN 5945-01-102-0584
NSN 6610-00-830-9149
NSN 6685-00-434-0101