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 6150-01-478-5108
NSN 2925-01-061-4012
NSN 6220-01-580-5924
NSN 2925-01-501-1104
NSN 6650-00-554-4568
NSN 6645-00-269-2764
NSN 5975-00-079-0022
NSN 5960-01-174-6975
NSN 5935-01-543-4919
NSN 5835-00-958-6231
NSN 6685-01-063-1165
NSN 4140-01-424-0611