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 6220-01-239-9889
NSN 6145-01-119-7232
NSN 6105-01-279-6279
NSN 5945-01-099-6889
NSN 6240-01-061-7359
NSN 5960-01-425-1454
NSN 4140-00-182-9158
NSN 5920-01-202-1982
NSN 5999-00-178-0295
NSN 6130-01-535-0077
NSN 6620-01-401-5356
NSN 6110-00-420-6518