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 6645-01-013-6254
NSN 5915-01-197-1857
NSN 4140-00-905-6570
NSN 5935-00-162-6285
NSN 4140-01-191-1247
NSN 5990-00-130-1930
NSN 6150-01-055-5424
NSN 6645-00-922-0886
NSN 6645-01-023-8724
NSN 6240-00-141-0129
NSN 5960-01-170-4057
NSN 5925-00-972-3000