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 6220-01-631-4630
NSN 6645-01-496-7144
NSN 5935-01-426-0094
NSN 5895-00-200-4346
NSN 2925-01-247-8058
NSN 6105-00-647-3955
NSN 2925-01-391-1540
NSN 2925-01-053-0886
NSN 5996-01-633-7979
NSN 5915-01-450-8716
NSN 6220-01-154-1595
NSN 5930-00-404-4758