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 6645-00-355-8610
NSN 5855-01-519-1226
NSN 5960-00-349-7650
NSN 4140-01-287-5429
NSN 6145-00-623-7224
NSN 5920-01-238-8458
NSN 5985-01-027-0777
NSN 5950-01-191-2241
NSN 5950-01-100-3904
NSN 6145-00-269-4271
NSN 5910-01-196-1974
NSN 5915-01-468-5793