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 6685-00-263-4545
NSN 5915-01-088-8128
NSN 5998-00-393-5825
NSN 5990-00-066-2217
NSN 7035-01-516-2655
NSN 5960-01-165-1956
NSN 6220-00-077-3162
NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 6130-00-525-9975
NSN 7035-01-045-1272
NSN 6650-00-464-6395
NSN 4140-01-617-4488