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 6240-00-204-0459
NSN 4140-01-084-7596
NSN 4140-01-202-3359
NSN 6130-00-471-5067
NSN 6135-01-199-1185
NSN 4140-01-602-9588
NSN 5965-01-222-8894
NSN 6620-00-130-0815
NSN 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 5920-01-634-0250
NSN 5925-00-666-4753
NSN 5915-00-909-4801