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 7035-01-068-4175
NSN 5895-01-607-8729
NSN 4140-01-252-4392
NSN 6240-00-407-1024
NSN 6135-00-756-6149
NSN 6135-01-597-1901
NSN 6220-00-242-1492
NSN 5935-00-461-1523
NSN 6150-01-298-0536
NSN 5930-00-405-7643
NSN 5920-00-373-3636
NSN 5960-00-736-0213