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 6610-01-252-4717
NSN 6320-01-476-7702
NSN 7035-00-252-7467
NSN 6110-01-558-5200
NSN 6110-01-096-0646
NSN 5855-01-482-6164
NSN 6220-00-757-5115
NSN 6130-00-470-0522
NSN 6610-00-264-0961
NSN 6240-01-529-6624
NSN 5975-01-518-5480
NSN 5975-01-269-8750