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 6320-00-699-1091
NSN 4140-01-332-3734
NSN 6130-00-212-4883
NSN 5950-01-558-5007
NSN 6110-01-171-3083
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 5999-01-181-2738
NSN 6685-01-051-2603
NSN 5895-01-145-9033
NSN 5998-00-054-0925
NSN 6610-01-444-0169
NSN 5910-00-653-6651