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 2925-01-076-6128
NSN 6240-00-226-0462
NSN 6610-01-625-6855
NSN 5835-01-101-2184
NSN 5855-00-310-2740
NSN 5990-01-181-9886
NSN 6105-01-290-4738
NSN 6650-00-246-3751
NSN 5945-01-492-9460
NSN 5996-01-482-2214
NSN 5855-01-364-1005
NSN 5965-00-067-0290