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 6240-01-064-9727
NSN 5835-01-486-0545
NSN 5998-01-004-4427
NSN 5950-01-324-8991
NSN 5910-01-614-1667
NSN 5925-00-724-4388
NSN 5910-00-964-7437
NSN 5935-01-162-2329
NSN 2925-01-445-4095
NSN 5920-01-643-3063
NSN 5950-00-222-4745
NSN 5910-00-161-0684