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 4140-01-530-2172
NSN 5925-00-752-3590
NSN 5910-00-118-3941
NSN 5895-01-261-6266
NSN 5910-01-073-4035
NSN 5935-00-966-2211
NSN 6145-01-182-8781
NSN 6645-00-887-0122
NSN 5996-00-169-9323
NSN 5975-01-236-3354
NSN 6220-00-615-2168
NSN 5895-01-372-2554