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 6105-01-131-1408
NSN 5905-00-170-4163
NSN 5945-01-571-8903
NSN 6220-01-245-9242
NSN 4140-01-519-9343
NSN 6320-01-433-3953
NSN 6110-01-356-2578
NSN 6105-01-649-7986
NSN 7035-00-064-7008
NSN 5905-00-886-6256
NSN 6645-00-958-5299
NSN 6110-01-493-4402