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 6220-00-960-7591
NSN 6105-00-185-9478
NSN 5975-01-166-9686
NSN 5910-01-625-5332
NSN 5998-01-052-4402
NSN 5835-01-652-0168
NSN 6610-01-527-8006
NSN 5895-01-505-8936
NSN 4140-01-024-8595
NSN 5935-01-344-0198
NSN 6145-00-144-0083
NSN 5925-01-112-8473