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 6240-00-471-3345
NSN 6320-01-425-1417
NSN 5998-00-119-4560
NSN 7035-01-243-8523
NSN 5975-00-936-7377
NSN 4140-00-038-7577
NSN 5985-00-554-9730
NSN 2925-01-322-9780
NSN 6610-01-503-0153
NSN 5975-00-964-4510
NSN 5945-01-466-5575
NSN 6220-01-456-4805