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 6650-01-089-7777
NSN 6650-01-168-8451
NSN 6130-00-069-9797
NSN 5960-01-201-5804
NSN 6645-00-250-4680
NSN 5915-01-433-2128
NSN 6130-01-284-3862
NSN 5915-01-506-9239
NSN 6220-01-502-6030
NSN 6135-01-255-9129
NSN 5835-01-548-4955
NSN 5925-00-404-0396