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 4140-01-215-7958
NSN 6610-01-096-8746
NSN 6130-01-245-4366
NSN 6150-00-939-4731
NSN 6105-00-054-2168
NSN 5855-00-586-6255
NSN 6130-01-090-0631
NSN 5998-00-477-6870
NSN 5990-01-188-7309
NSN 5996-00-909-9044
NSN 6610-01-326-0119
NSN 5999-00-149-0624