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 4140-00-106-6780
NSN 7035-01-083-0282
NSN 5950-01-548-3055
NSN 5915-01-291-5325
NSN 6130-01-159-7036
NSN 7035-01-321-7456
NSN 5915-01-191-5334
NSN 6620-01-389-3324
NSN 5920-01-443-7955
NSN 4140-01-148-4634
NSN 5905-00-404-1134
NSN 5998-01-214-8685