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 6150-01-296-6378
NSN 6320-01-525-4789
NSN 6610-00-526-4394
NSN 2925-01-507-1276
NSN 6135-01-354-5535
NSN 4140-01-603-7165
NSN 6320-00-313-9114
NSN 5905-00-922-2942
NSN 6320-00-228-5678
NSN 5975-01-341-8196
NSN 5930-01-309-3378
NSN 5945-01-525-7779