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 7035-01-287-9817
NSN 4140-01-039-0414
NSN 5835-01-116-2369
NSN 5930-01-649-6846
NSN 5935-01-590-9846
NSN 4140-01-641-1163
NSN 5996-01-164-8266
NSN 5965-00-958-7455
NSN 6610-00-737-0864
NSN 5915-00-822-1290
NSN 5985-01-363-6437
NSN 5985-00-288-6001