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 6240-01-358-8857
NSN 5965-01-133-7459
NSN 6220-00-935-1460
NSN 5915-00-825-0453
NSN 5950-01-130-6037
NSN 4140-00-707-2963
NSN 5950-01-623-9952
NSN 5935-01-644-5489
NSN 5855-01-634-0259
NSN 6135-01-435-6503
NSN 5930-01-200-6343
NSN 6150-01-514-9389