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 6220-00-193-7278
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 2925-01-579-8620
NSN 5855-01-600-6437
NSN 5935-01-354-5049
NSN 6105-01-328-3676
NSN 6650-00-078-5773
NSN 6135-01-252-0315
NSN 6650-01-098-0288
NSN 5999-01-134-0650
NSN 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 5905-00-553-9985