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 5950-01-141-8575
NSN 6145-01-185-7803
NSN 5905-00-959-5370
NSN 5920-01-339-3977
NSN 5910-01-423-9427
NSN 6135-01-370-2599
NSN 5895-01-059-7757
NSN 7035-00-009-8705
NSN 5990-01-485-0260
NSN 4140-01-227-1342
NSN 6320-01-280-3218
NSN 6650-00-170-5095