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 6645-00-269-2764
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 5920-01-581-4622
NSN 5945-01-360-6118
NSN 5935-01-395-1207
NSN 4140-01-228-3443
NSN 6685-01-341-4413
NSN 5999-01-087-5599
NSN 6135-00-488-4478
NSN 5925-01-559-4607
NSN 5945-00-459-5823
NSN 5996-01-381-4440