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 2925-01-446-6976
NSN 5835-01-225-0372
NSN 5945-01-151-2936
NSN 6645-01-468-9841
NSN 6620-00-168-0308
NSN 6150-01-007-2640
NSN 5998-01-128-8115
NSN 6320-00-108-7049
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6610-01-067-4359
NSN 5945-00-473-3369
NSN 5975-01-039-6298