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 6240-00-944-2375
NSN 5855-01-364-1005
NSN 6130-00-067-7469
NSN 5925-00-593-6407
NSN 6145-00-100-4358
NSN 5990-01-352-5255
NSN 6145-01-557-0653
NSN 5950-01-147-5216
NSN 5925-01-367-8661
NSN 6320-00-070-4544
NSN 5985-01-112-6382
NSN 5945-01-444-0971