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 6650-01-337-9538
NSN 5945-01-487-5208
NSN 5835-01-386-4027
NSN 5910-01-607-8212
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 6150-01-059-4753
NSN 5975-01-065-9712
NSN 7035-01-540-9829
NSN 6685-01-301-1847
NSN 5895-01-229-7005
NSN 6130-01-352-5644
NSN 6220-01-264-6702