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 6320-00-511-7331
NSN 6240-01-399-0343
NSN 6130-01-249-2539
NSN 5999-01-424-8468
NSN 6610-01-461-5393
NSN 6110-01-133-6676
NSN 6240-00-116-3629
NSN 5920-01-218-5742
NSN 5905-01-252-7408
NSN 6135-00-603-4859
NSN 5910-01-265-1828
NSN 6610-01-168-7943