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 6130-01-480-4770
NSN 6240-01-195-8696
NSN 5975-00-411-6294
NSN 2925-00-684-7708
NSN 5930-01-482-3426
NSN 6240-01-509-9606
NSN 5996-01-204-5640
NSN 6320-00-546-9249
NSN 5998-01-352-0976
NSN 6685-00-858-8616
NSN 6685-01-437-6939
NSN 4140-01-092-1098