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 6240-01-268-4035
NSN 5920-00-449-0063
NSN 5990-00-847-3806
NSN 6105-01-428-9648
NSN 6110-01-213-0210
NSN 5920-01-581-0015
NSN 5985-01-076-9330
NSN 6105-01-341-4307
NSN 7035-01-517-1713
NSN 6145-01-050-7531
NSN 5990-00-063-9160
NSN 6240-01-432-0819