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 5990-01-540-1619
NSN 6240-00-858-0389
NSN 6685-00-523-1500
NSN 4140-00-245-2715
NSN 5910-01-481-3658
NSN 6130-00-930-3158
NSN 6645-01-535-7136
NSN 6110-01-512-8742
NSN 6620-01-036-2061
NSN 6240-01-369-9883
NSN 7035-01-350-4247
NSN 5910-01-571-7621