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 6130-00-400-5774
NSN 5905-01-605-3577
NSN 6135-01-633-8502
NSN 6320-00-164-4087
NSN 6650-01-253-6794
NSN 6130-00-876-2511
NSN 6610-01-044-4740
NSN 5998-01-401-5396
NSN 6150-01-091-6850
NSN 5985-00-111-8375
NSN 5990-00-197-0159
NSN 4140-00-776-8237