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 2925-01-111-2927
NSN 6610-00-317-5860
NSN 5835-01-160-7282
NSN 6150-01-595-2082
NSN 6685-01-303-7498
NSN 5930-01-073-7077
NSN 5910-00-642-7527
NSN 5930-00-081-8782
NSN 6150-00-705-5193
NSN 5975-00-617-1171
NSN 6130-01-052-4811
NSN 5960-00-297-7099