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 5835-01-412-6901
NSN 6645-01-600-2080
NSN 6110-01-657-9154
NSN 6130-01-349-3661
NSN 5910-01-391-7774
NSN 5895-00-248-7477
NSN 4140-01-091-9828
NSN 6110-01-142-7378
NSN 5910-01-622-4595
NSN 5945-01-113-2930
NSN 5998-00-472-2601
NSN 5925-01-456-6944