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 4140-01-456-3925
NSN 5905-01-266-3050
NSN 5950-01-330-0865
NSN 5950-00-751-9738
NSN 6220-01-300-9448
NSN 6620-01-624-3933
NSN 6145-00-119-8201
NSN 5945-01-172-8104
NSN 6110-00-073-6881
NSN 5895-01-188-7470
NSN 5895-00-216-5849
NSN 6620-01-281-6386