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 6110-01-660-7248
NSN 6145-01-199-1430
NSN 5835-00-779-2836
NSN 6650-01-512-9650
NSN 6320-01-366-5157
NSN 5998-00-971-8207
NSN 6610-01-476-7412
NSN 5935-00-054-8785
NSN 6320-01-550-3420
NSN 5915-01-364-7272
NSN 6135-01-513-3581
NSN 4140-01-588-9735