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 4140-01-660-0543
NSN 5945-01-486-8788
NSN 5930-01-092-7185
NSN 5835-01-152-9483
NSN 7035-00-096-9986
NSN 5965-01-487-4479
NSN 5985-00-899-6329
NSN 5935-01-076-8163
NSN 6110-01-425-1449
NSN 6130-01-586-8408
NSN 5990-01-492-6575
NSN 5930-00-113-3315