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 6130-01-382-2532
NSN 4140-01-420-7269
NSN 4140-01-231-5031
NSN 6110-00-961-1100
NSN 5998-01-497-7875
NSN 5998-01-655-7034
NSN 5990-01-517-7848
NSN 5930-01-458-8484
NSN 6145-00-452-4501
NSN 5990-00-965-0495
NSN 6685-01-440-7951
NSN 6110-01-542-7668