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 6150-01-045-1529
NSN 5965-01-425-2039
NSN 5965-01-273-0943
NSN 6610-01-120-7670
NSN 6220-01-298-6836
NSN 4140-00-572-5777
NSN 6320-01-114-6054
NSN 7035-01-073-5233
NSN 6145-01-432-1767
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 5999-01-210-4099
NSN 6620-00-224-1335