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 5855-01-079-8716
NSN 6150-01-056-5288
NSN 6650-01-026-6572
NSN 4140-01-608-4073
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 2925-01-562-1663
NSN 5996-01-480-3807
NSN 4140-00-232-1039
NSN 5835-01-366-5906
NSN 7035-01-631-4095
NSN 5945-00-881-0233
NSN 5855-01-236-9645