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 6320-01-160-8578
NSN 5930-01-552-8281
NSN 6240-00-616-4029
NSN 5990-01-211-6136
NSN 6220-01-334-8306
NSN 5935-00-827-4028
NSN 7035-01-426-4133
NSN 5895-01-070-0271
NSN 5910-01-421-4828
NSN 5920-01-199-0083
NSN 5935-01-313-3722
NSN 6685-01-015-9332