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 6240-01-633-9357
NSN 6145-01-068-0560
NSN 5998-01-492-5661
NSN 5950-01-175-1620
NSN 5930-01-119-8452
NSN 6110-01-333-6010
NSN 6145-00-752-2038
NSN 5930-01-189-3187
NSN 6150-01-586-0891
NSN 5990-01-176-9731
NSN 6135-01-422-1440
NSN 6620-00-709-7389