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 6320-01-150-5378
NSN 4140-01-658-2793
NSN 5910-01-407-4519
NSN 5935-00-358-3950
NSN 6145-01-061-3058
NSN 6105-01-448-0936
NSN 6645-00-927-8207
NSN 5950-00-195-4312
NSN 5945-01-651-7403
NSN 6645-01-302-9608
NSN 5975-00-102-9639
NSN 5855-01-079-8716