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 4140-01-055-2900
NSN 5935-01-319-1725
NSN 5945-01-458-7978
NSN 6105-01-447-5129
NSN 5960-00-824-5229
NSN 6130-01-055-2227
NSN 4140-01-246-4267
NSN 5999-01-411-4298
NSN 5950-00-076-1839
NSN 6650-01-610-0010
NSN 6110-01-609-1358
NSN 6110-01-311-3294