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 6620-00-538-8746
NSN 5999-01-071-2806
NSN 6610-00-753-2281
NSN 6105-00-273-1106
NSN 5835-00-222-3956
NSN 4140-01-470-3577
NSN 6645-01-632-6263
NSN 2925-01-469-8229
NSN 5915-01-288-3237
NSN 5895-01-390-2181
NSN 6685-01-166-6593
NSN 6610-01-041-0555