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 6320-01-631-7828
NSN 5999-01-582-0648
NSN 6650-01-640-9370
NSN 5945-01-189-5123
NSN 6135-01-124-2376
NSN 4140-01-446-3525
NSN 6220-00-074-4224
NSN 5930-00-583-7921
NSN 6685-01-406-4482
NSN 5965-01-622-8875
NSN 6145-01-412-1297
NSN 5930-01-577-4986