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 6130-01-039-6571
NSN 5925-00-206-3580
NSN 6620-01-082-2483
NSN 5999-01-391-5646
NSN 6240-01-094-7717
NSN 5996-01-445-7547
NSN 5990-01-326-2677
NSN 5945-00-800-4034
NSN 6130-01-068-7751
NSN 6685-01-106-0905
NSN 6650-01-269-8833
NSN 4140-00-109-5137