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 6130-01-245-7589
NSN 6620-01-462-1625
NSN 6135-00-985-7846
NSN 5999-00-408-8797
NSN 6135-00-767-0331
NSN 5950-01-391-7677
NSN 6610-00-479-0681
NSN 5985-01-249-6926
NSN 5915-01-642-5294
NSN 5985-00-758-2056
NSN 6150-01-073-1006
NSN 6645-00-226-2270