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 4140-00-824-6053
NSN 5935-01-259-0517
NSN 6645-01-520-4455
NSN 5945-00-074-4559
NSN 6645-00-049-6713
NSN 5855-00-004-0904
NSN 6620-01-352-5640
NSN 5930-00-925-4651
NSN 5945-00-608-6185
NSN 5945-01-326-8551
NSN 5915-00-324-2318
NSN 5985-01-653-5912