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 4140-00-505-1684
NSN 5960-01-312-1262
NSN 6620-00-426-6884
NSN 5950-00-391-2458
NSN 6135-00-728-9860
NSN 6150-01-573-2871
NSN 6130-00-069-5330
NSN 5985-01-027-1668
NSN 5835-01-050-9509
NSN 5998-00-197-7604
NSN 6135-01-014-9755
NSN 6220-01-115-5531