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 4140-01-337-3437
NSN 5835-01-376-8454
NSN 5925-00-855-7587
NSN 6150-01-357-7687
NSN 6110-00-144-6763
NSN 4140-01-318-5772
NSN 5960-01-320-9779
NSN 6145-00-237-4598
NSN 5895-01-100-1825
NSN 6685-01-617-2815
NSN 5905-01-195-7200
NSN 6685-01-474-6470