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 5835-00-170-5238
NSN 6620-01-088-1272
NSN 5855-01-218-3735
NSN 6105-00-689-7799
NSN 4140-01-524-4301
NSN 6685-01-487-6001
NSN 5935-00-529-0407
NSN 6620-01-014-7192
NSN 5930-00-167-4520
NSN 6685-01-039-0701
NSN 5996-01-262-3005
NSN 5930-01-233-6372