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 5930-01-257-0237
NSN 6645-01-025-1002
NSN 5855-01-320-7640
NSN 6650-00-925-1274
NSN 6645-00-527-7258
NSN 6105-00-692-4468
NSN 6145-01-458-8729
NSN 6610-01-390-6925
NSN 5920-00-061-8623
NSN 6320-00-977-3930
NSN 6240-01-257-9004
NSN 5915-01-310-9355