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 6620-01-152-9453
NSN 5945-01-539-8735
NSN 6105-01-038-8309
NSN 5975-01-298-3737
NSN 6650-01-409-1992
NSN 5935-01-237-5800
NSN 6650-01-343-8008
NSN 6650-01-071-1234
NSN 5920-00-291-1379
NSN 2925-01-222-7764
NSN 5905-00-026-7907
NSN 5935-01-456-4255