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 6135-00-951-3426
NSN 5855-01-087-0846
NSN 6620-01-633-8443
NSN 5905-01-357-7271
NSN 6685-00-126-0368
NSN 6220-01-265-1077
NSN 5895-01-086-1416
NSN 5945-01-040-4418
NSN 6130-01-368-3212
NSN 6610-00-960-9135
NSN 6240-01-475-9503
NSN 6110-01-504-8173