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 6620-00-378-3070
NSN 5975-01-114-8071
NSN 7035-01-315-9754
NSN 5920-01-295-3267
NSN 6150-01-421-2543
NSN 5975-01-141-7632
NSN 5935-00-140-6386
NSN 6650-00-047-4161
NSN 5999-01-634-0576
NSN 5905-01-415-2902
NSN 5895-00-884-9449
NSN 5905-01-298-8851