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 7035-01-076-4067
NSN 5935-01-359-1574
NSN 5960-01-609-6565
NSN 5985-00-400-9859
NSN 6610-01-102-2256
NSN 6110-01-234-8227
NSN 5960-00-781-4084
NSN 4140-01-384-3890
NSN 6650-00-564-7322
NSN 5915-01-393-2708
NSN 4140-01-155-0508
NSN 5975-00-919-2125