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 6220-00-329-3497
NSN 5915-00-932-3040
NSN 5930-00-275-3132
NSN 6110-01-427-6395
NSN 5965-01-068-2714
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5965-01-612-7414
NSN 6685-00-278-9496
NSN 5905-00-590-2804
NSN 4140-01-489-0396
NSN 6110-00-188-9874
NSN 5935-01-621-6539