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 6220-00-391-1076
NSN 5998-01-411-6315
NSN 6610-01-452-2447
NSN 5835-01-130-8052
NSN 6130-00-150-7294
NSN 5996-00-177-6267
NSN 6105-00-463-9108
NSN 6110-01-397-2885
NSN 6620-01-303-2563
NSN 5905-01-194-3473
NSN 5975-01-357-7622
NSN 6240-01-067-1494