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 6150-01-233-3715
NSN 5965-01-479-0744
NSN 5855-01-542-9059
NSN 5895-01-367-4208
NSN 5996-00-386-2236
NSN 6610-01-633-8931
NSN 6650-00-872-0942
NSN 7035-01-326-8569
NSN 6685-01-472-2413
NSN 6130-01-622-4955
NSN 6610-00-170-6715
NSN 4140-01-392-0453