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 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 5985-01-380-3402
NSN 5895-00-393-2512
NSN 5985-01-519-8900
NSN 6150-00-487-4484
NSN 6135-00-240-3200
NSN 6240-01-633-9357
NSN 6220-01-157-4937
NSN 5965-00-898-1356
NSN 5915-00-383-1471
NSN 6150-01-207-1411
NSN 5950-01-592-6725