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 4140-01-609-6895
NSN 5945-01-147-5727
NSN 5965-01-307-3485
NSN 6650-00-470-8594
NSN 6110-00-663-4054
NSN 5910-01-383-7135
NSN 6645-00-967-3429
NSN 5835-01-574-0080
NSN 6110-01-147-4628
NSN 4140-00-078-9357
NSN 7035-01-432-2424
NSN 5835-01-531-0379