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 6650-00-458-7586
NSN 5945-00-941-2777
NSN 6220-01-555-8332
NSN 6145-00-286-9588
NSN 5960-01-314-1822
NSN 6650-01-069-8211
NSN 6105-00-504-6261
NSN 6135-00-488-4478
NSN 2925-01-206-7948
NSN 6685-01-212-3259
NSN 2925-00-236-9986
NSN 5855-01-589-7273