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 6685-01-370-1770
NSN 6650-01-100-9964
NSN 6320-00-422-9006
NSN 5925-01-394-3725
NSN 6240-01-335-2622
NSN 5895-00-244-0943
NSN 4140-00-442-0556
NSN 6685-01-607-6481
NSN 5990-01-328-8225
NSN 5930-01-592-2238
NSN 5975-01-458-7811
NSN 4140-01-459-7411