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 6135-00-182-7008
NSN 6685-01-627-9606
NSN 5915-01-170-4308
NSN 4140-01-072-5668
NSN 5920-01-273-0710
NSN 7035-01-198-1512
NSN 5920-01-557-2536
NSN 5998-00-967-3648
NSN 6130-01-018-7108
NSN 5965-01-519-1929
NSN 5930-01-311-9272
NSN 5985-01-349-6006