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 4140-01-088-1898
NSN 5965-01-414-3753
NSN 5855-01-535-7127
NSN 5998-01-377-4316
NSN 5925-01-391-7718
NSN 5930-01-437-4135
NSN 5950-01-220-8640
NSN 5915-01-166-7135
NSN 5950-01-549-3526
NSN 5920-01-055-2024
NSN 6650-01-343-8008
NSN 6130-01-584-1294