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 4140-00-519-2781
NSN 5999-01-437-8843
NSN 2925-01-189-4272
NSN 5835-00-706-0829
NSN 5975-00-203-8416
NSN 5996-00-910-8826
NSN 6620-00-112-1214
NSN 5990-01-040-6358
NSN 5999-01-357-6399
NSN 6645-01-265-0648
NSN 6130-01-226-3386
NSN 5965-01-322-8136