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 6645-01-148-4679
NSN 6610-01-574-3260
NSN 6320-01-242-8355
NSN 6220-00-519-5617
NSN 5975-01-183-4174
NSN 5965-01-460-4172
NSN 7035-01-106-3476
NSN 5895-01-167-7656
NSN 5925-00-552-2436
NSN 6220-01-263-7281
NSN 4140-01-631-1896
NSN 6150-00-427-6500