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 4140-01-608-3992
NSN 5985-00-761-7769
NSN 5930-00-883-4606
NSN 6145-01-460-6069
NSN 6135-01-193-8154
NSN 6130-00-872-1990
NSN 6610-00-018-5141
NSN 5990-00-734-7285
NSN 5945-00-370-9477
NSN 4140-00-862-5644
NSN 5935-01-095-1210
NSN 5930-00-007-7262