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 6220-01-088-3457
NSN 6240-01-535-7359
NSN 5990-01-213-6319
NSN 2925-00-477-2654
NSN 5930-01-178-6900
NSN 5915-01-487-3240
NSN 4140-00-205-6491
NSN 6110-01-049-4362
NSN 5905-01-252-3286
NSN 5895-01-152-1947
NSN 5895-01-401-5388
NSN 5835-01-620-0675