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 6240-01-448-4761
NSN 5925-01-471-5111
NSN 6610-01-104-6981
NSN 5999-01-468-0712
NSN 6220-01-150-9231
NSN 5935-01-035-6888
NSN 6130-01-163-8834
NSN 5975-00-304-5019
NSN 6220-00-932-4992
NSN 5999-00-333-0238
NSN 6130-01-540-8225
NSN 5905-00-728-3107