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 6240-01-146-4839
NSN 6645-01-611-9391
NSN 5895-01-162-8349
NSN 5835-00-484-1330
NSN 6685-01-534-1597
NSN 6110-00-500-4914
NSN 5975-01-543-6804
NSN 6135-00-228-8140
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5990-00-003-4464
NSN 5925-00-840-5393
NSN 4140-00-936-0233