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 6610-01-130-8885
NSN 6135-01-268-7056
NSN 2925-01-004-5627
NSN 5925-00-180-4088
NSN 5975-01-098-6485
NSN 6135-01-496-5810
NSN 5999-00-917-7454
NSN 5855-01-100-3272
NSN 6645-00-081-4298
NSN 5930-01-661-3366
NSN 6645-01-627-8040
NSN 5835-01-424-4577