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 6240-01-083-2431
NSN 6220-01-584-5521
NSN 5895-01-466-1015
NSN 5915-00-110-6565
NSN 7035-00-623-4744
NSN 6240-01-521-2921
NSN 6105-00-111-2546
NSN 5990-00-162-7273
NSN 6240-01-135-2949
NSN 5998-01-272-8526
NSN 6650-01-003-9355
NSN 5855-01-062-5655