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 4140-01-315-0460
NSN 5910-01-378-2000
NSN 5835-01-014-9292
NSN 6150-01-381-2212
NSN 5996-00-815-9710
NSN 6145-01-557-9724
NSN 5930-01-359-9053
NSN 6110-00-931-2085
NSN 5975-01-597-2520
NSN 2925-01-627-6568
NSN 7035-01-057-1526
NSN 5930-01-539-3932