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 6620-01-124-0947
NSN 6130-01-015-9447
NSN 5935-00-522-7923
NSN 6650-01-627-1480
NSN 5910-00-251-5013
NSN 5905-01-493-6622
NSN 6685-00-343-8230
NSN 5925-01-356-9050
NSN 5920-01-236-5397
NSN 5910-01-491-6487
NSN 7035-01-386-5722
NSN 5998-01-580-4629