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 6110-01-188-7432
NSN 2925-01-104-8163
NSN 2925-00-735-4979
NSN 7035-00-043-1325
NSN 6240-01-098-6410
NSN 5910-01-250-2371
NSN 5925-00-135-7738
NSN 5910-01-542-8122
NSN 6610-01-210-8493
NSN 4140-00-383-1548
NSN 5996-00-922-5994
NSN 5950-00-107-2720