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 4140-01-508-4512
NSN 6145-00-860-6793
NSN 5999-01-205-3135
NSN 5990-01-226-6924
NSN 6105-00-433-5591
NSN 4140-01-290-9361
NSN 5920-01-433-0301
NSN 5905-01-390-0253
NSN 6645-00-226-2270
NSN 5835-01-426-0069
NSN 2925-00-246-3077
NSN 6110-01-264-4319