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 4140-01-023-1537
NSN 6650-01-334-2649
NSN 6650-01-052-2143
NSN 6610-00-194-0676
NSN 6110-00-997-6581
NSN 5910-01-063-1006
NSN 5990-00-816-9289
NSN 5930-00-115-9758
NSN 6105-01-562-4530
NSN 6685-01-339-6898
NSN 6105-01-358-8851
NSN 5985-00-549-1511