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 6220-01-157-9062
NSN 5999-01-125-3397
NSN 5975-01-321-6558
NSN 6620-01-290-8209
NSN 5855-01-447-3137
NSN 6240-00-913-1657
NSN 5935-01-282-4751
NSN 5835-01-525-3220
NSN 5950-01-435-4316
NSN 6130-01-452-9774
NSN 5985-00-917-2290
NSN 6145-01-508-4260