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 6130-01-308-5306
NSN 6220-01-394-8590
NSN 6105-01-134-5499
NSN 5950-00-639-9675
NSN 5998-01-317-4798
NSN 2925-01-347-4208
NSN 5925-00-934-3365
NSN 6320-01-615-7202
NSN 6610-01-032-5335
NSN 6685-01-423-1064
NSN 4140-00-406-0356
NSN 6130-01-268-2119