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 6110-00-759-8317
NSN 5935-01-213-4452
NSN 5990-01-384-2697
NSN 5895-01-359-3226
NSN 5975-00-224-9154
NSN 6645-01-502-1901
NSN 5915-00-574-5400
NSN 5985-01-381-3192
NSN 5855-01-556-7421
NSN 5935-01-158-4447
NSN 5960-01-502-6270
NSN 6150-01-615-8296