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 6220-00-477-5946
NSN 6650-01-584-3208
NSN 7035-01-086-2922
NSN 6130-01-372-4182
NSN 4140-01-050-8096
NSN 5965-00-884-2344
NSN 5895-01-245-9240
NSN 5999-00-992-5194
NSN 5925-01-361-8836
NSN 5835-01-426-6573
NSN 6610-01-187-1748
NSN 5965-01-017-2943