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 7035-01-445-3563
NSN 5935-01-092-3758
NSN 6220-01-631-8897
NSN 6110-01-307-0511
NSN 5910-01-500-1388
NSN 6610-01-528-5750
NSN 6650-01-428-9958
NSN 5930-01-472-9445
NSN 4140-01-191-1247
NSN 6135-00-708-0892
NSN 6105-00-191-2917
NSN 4140-00-899-3086