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 6150-00-138-9425
NSN 6620-00-530-3939
NSN 5930-01-598-0224
NSN 6650-00-834-9062
NSN 5895-00-043-0317
NSN 6610-00-932-2465
NSN 5930-01-148-8519
NSN 5855-00-548-4742
NSN 2925-01-501-1104
NSN 5990-00-518-3195
NSN 7035-01-019-5729
NSN 5910-01-463-9061