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 6240-00-443-8000
NSN 5930-00-537-7366
NSN 5835-01-197-9880
NSN 6150-01-516-8373
NSN 5895-00-415-1251
NSN 6320-01-422-1212
NSN 5855-01-483-2774
NSN 6105-01-264-4059
NSN 5895-01-228-9814
NSN 6150-01-515-0672
NSN 6150-01-224-9020
NSN 5996-00-153-3216