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 4140-01-330-4137
NSN 6240-01-373-6417
NSN 5985-00-872-1026
NSN 6110-01-395-4927
NSN 6150-00-551-3135
NSN 5965-00-370-3855
NSN 7035-00-238-3662
NSN 5855-00-160-2286
NSN 5935-00-062-7451
NSN 5950-01-625-9805
NSN 2925-01-344-6073
NSN 2925-00-066-9700