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 5990-01-037-9801
NSN 6685-01-256-3417
NSN 5855-01-203-4719
NSN 6645-00-200-2322
NSN 6610-01-387-0676
NSN 6105-01-381-2496
NSN 5990-00-469-7654
NSN 6320-00-115-0883
NSN 6240-01-527-9638
NSN 5895-01-160-8101
NSN 4140-01-252-8902
NSN 5925-01-429-4554