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 4140-01-137-3264
NSN 5999-01-159-5622
NSN 6110-01-322-6428
NSN 5895-01-596-7890
NSN 5990-00-908-0807
NSN 6150-00-361-9880
NSN 5965-00-170-5254
NSN 5960-01-353-3972
NSN 5975-01-214-0776
NSN 6240-01-398-6049
NSN 5835-01-426-6573
NSN 5915-01-036-1336