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 4140-00-701-0406
NSN 6610-01-607-4525
NSN 5945-00-483-6711
NSN 5895-01-302-6636
NSN 5945-00-381-8043
NSN 6130-00-227-2124
NSN 6650-00-016-9426
NSN 6620-00-466-1997
NSN 5960-01-649-1341
NSN 4140-01-065-7563
NSN 5945-01-621-4276
NSN 5996-01-325-8555