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 6220-01-157-2930
NSN 6105-01-362-9367
NSN 6650-01-434-0331
NSN 5925-01-014-4779
NSN 6610-00-670-4136
NSN 5950-01-409-0649
NSN 5999-01-130-0280
NSN 5835-00-468-3367
NSN 6650-01-399-8552
NSN 5905-01-324-7115
NSN 6130-01-367-6563
NSN 6220-01-510-4665