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 4140-01-359-2895
NSN 5905-01-104-5320
NSN 6130-01-540-4308
NSN 5925-01-626-2112
NSN 6240-01-226-6484
NSN 6130-01-364-6844
NSN 5915-01-217-0866
NSN 6145-01-381-5589
NSN 6145-01-335-3448
NSN 5930-01-197-7372
NSN 5945-00-941-5926
NSN 5905-01-267-8128