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 6220-00-935-6881
NSN 6240-01-300-0742
NSN 5930-01-576-3415
NSN 5960-00-431-8739
NSN 4140-01-276-2436
NSN 5999-00-243-0359
NSN 6145-01-556-7403
NSN 5945-01-016-5358
NSN 6150-01-437-5552
NSN 5950-00-935-2428
NSN 6135-01-423-7502
NSN 5975-01-454-3542