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 6685-00-469-9323
NSN 5915-01-613-7378
NSN 6150-01-094-4781
NSN 6645-01-329-9591
NSN 5915-01-416-6402
NSN 4140-01-182-5861
NSN 6610-01-038-2122
NSN 6320-01-072-2073
NSN 5910-00-834-0774
NSN 6110-01-459-7709
NSN 6685-00-434-0101
NSN 6685-00-055-5913