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 6320-01-361-7467
NSN 2925-01-105-5446
NSN 5930-00-535-5183
NSN 5945-01-601-2677
NSN 6620-00-867-6156
NSN 4140-00-150-8265
NSN 5835-01-203-8295
NSN 5915-00-314-0832
NSN 2925-00-626-5027
NSN 5999-01-500-7728
NSN 5965-01-121-2319
NSN 4140-01-435-6540