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 5915-01-088-6908
NSN 5895-01-172-9655
NSN 4140-01-254-5928
NSN 5935-00-471-6233
NSN 5975-01-039-3949
NSN 6130-00-564-1230
NSN 5990-01-646-6149
NSN 5920-00-411-7636
NSN 5920-01-051-0090
NSN 5950-00-827-0884
NSN 6320-00-908-6841
NSN 6135-01-199-1185