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 6685-00-237-1202
NSN 6110-00-583-9821
NSN 5855-01-544-7588
NSN 4140-00-042-6423
NSN 5895-01-440-9847
NSN 5920-01-255-3077
NSN 5895-01-559-7506
NSN 7035-00-553-6951
NSN 5965-01-567-1087
NSN 5999-00-361-8653
NSN 2925-01-156-9570
NSN 6130-01-529-0650