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 4140-00-350-9401
NSN 5999-01-573-7184
NSN 5925-01-420-2890
NSN 6650-00-272-2271
NSN 5915-01-438-2215
NSN 5930-00-269-4996
NSN 5930-01-227-7857
NSN 6105-01-551-1263
NSN 5960-00-672-3836
NSN 6620-01-386-5914
NSN 5998-01-442-0834
NSN 4140-01-343-7302