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 6320-01-067-0474
NSN 5925-01-030-9227
NSN 5895-01-370-1053
NSN 4140-01-431-9065
NSN 6145-00-104-6047
NSN 5945-00-715-1166
NSN 6240-01-593-2170
NSN 6620-00-296-6762
NSN 6135-00-891-4944
NSN 6145-00-153-2818
NSN 5985-01-178-7613
NSN 6110-00-012-4430