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 4140-01-261-0941
NSN 6145-01-416-2413
NSN 5915-01-384-2642
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 6110-01-574-4274
NSN 5835-01-141-4975
NSN 5910-00-934-2923
NSN 4140-01-461-7885
NSN 5835-01-259-0859
NSN 5920-00-387-4179
NSN 6620-00-538-8746
NSN 5930-01-281-4284