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 4140-01-487-4394
NSN 5930-01-336-2978
NSN 5925-00-539-8372
NSN 6620-00-820-9616
NSN 6105-01-546-6807
NSN 6620-01-406-6840
NSN 5910-00-183-9355
NSN 6145-01-406-4201
NSN 5945-01-548-7434
NSN 5915-00-856-9424
NSN 6650-00-450-3504
NSN 5905-01-029-3698