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 6110-01-371-0134
NSN 6610-01-375-9994
NSN 5960-00-525-1898
NSN 6145-00-399-5201
NSN 4140-00-445-8474
NSN 5895-01-057-0061
NSN 5915-00-901-4620
NSN 5855-01-059-2710
NSN 6145-01-463-3122
NSN 5965-01-267-8536
NSN 5985-01-616-0596
NSN 6685-01-074-3297