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 6130-01-253-6957
NSN 5950-00-501-6250
NSN 5998-01-118-2783
NSN 7035-01-169-6551
NSN 5990-01-485-0260
NSN 6620-01-350-5103
NSN 5910-01-443-1968
NSN 6130-01-413-3343
NSN 5950-01-280-5469
NSN 6320-00-004-9158
NSN 5945-01-281-7404
NSN 5915-01-304-8426