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 5998-01-329-1059
NSN 6650-00-930-8825
NSN 4140-00-203-0812
NSN 5930-00-579-2281
NSN 6220-01-302-6001
NSN 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 5990-01-471-0494
NSN 6650-00-482-8984
NSN 6135-01-322-4655
NSN 5910-01-511-0011
NSN 5915-00-959-5454
NSN 4140-01-495-3049