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 4140-01-112-8550
NSN 5950-00-982-9053
NSN 5920-01-102-9458
NSN 6135-01-584-0941
NSN 5835-01-532-9373
NSN 6610-01-453-1610
NSN 6685-00-276-1308
NSN 5935-01-342-8469
NSN 6650-01-247-6623
NSN 6220-01-587-1775
NSN 5998-00-975-7644
NSN 5965-00-866-3371