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 6220-01-463-2854
NSN 6240-01-304-1596
NSN 4140-01-454-3161
NSN 6105-01-464-9563
NSN 5835-01-044-2628
NSN 6105-01-545-8159
NSN 5985-01-383-2040
NSN 5895-00-446-2493
NSN 5935-00-392-4072
NSN 5945-01-033-5545
NSN 5985-00-811-7472
NSN 7035-00-830-1235