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 6130-01-139-7401
NSN 5975-01-445-1032
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 5935-00-005-2543
NSN 6650-00-166-7160
NSN 6130-00-915-1937
NSN 5965-00-777-7037
NSN 6110-01-067-2121
NSN 6240-00-134-2085
NSN 6620-00-463-5189
NSN 6620-01-463-1373
NSN 5920-01-065-0395