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 6110-01-590-0007
NSN 5960-01-516-7264
NSN 6650-00-726-4242
NSN 6130-00-137-7784
NSN 6135-01-321-5659
NSN 5930-01-354-0301
NSN 5996-00-633-1177
NSN 5945-01-040-1655
NSN 5999-00-156-4424
NSN 6145-00-862-7069
NSN 5925-00-493-1881
NSN 5985-00-122-5041