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 6645-01-511-3272
NSN 5965-00-807-9159
NSN 6105-00-481-3401
NSN 5965-00-201-7479
NSN 5960-01-573-6483
NSN 5920-00-331-0583
NSN 4140-00-800-7204
NSN 5910-01-367-2738
NSN 6135-01-625-0765
NSN 5945-01-165-1771
NSN 6610-01-479-4538
NSN 5990-01-489-0366