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 5985-00-089-0531
NSN 6130-01-603-0597
NSN 6320-01-556-2011
NSN 6240-01-081-3190
NSN 4140-01-424-0841
NSN 5975-00-060-8445
NSN 5998-00-725-9230
NSN 5920-00-226-7148
NSN 5855-01-541-8659
NSN 5998-01-055-9961
NSN 6130-01-368-4678
NSN 6130-01-420-7339