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 5998-01-008-7420
NSN 6110-01-621-0047
NSN 6130-01-459-8018
NSN 5996-01-266-8706
NSN 5930-01-322-8220
NSN 6130-00-620-5994
NSN 4140-01-128-4939
NSN 5915-01-088-2033
NSN 5855-01-455-4910
NSN 5990-00-405-5182
NSN 6240-01-585-9623
NSN 5930-01-043-5331