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 6130-01-135-7890
NSN 6220-01-175-5114
NSN 6610-01-651-8659
NSN 6135-01-190-2628
NSN 5905-01-091-4542
NSN 6610-01-295-6327
NSN 6620-01-258-8980
NSN 5996-01-410-8538
NSN 6130-00-090-1484
NSN 5910-01-183-3370
NSN 6620-00-266-2763
NSN 5905-00-500-8700