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 6110-01-214-2568
NSN 5935-00-925-3836
NSN 4140-01-296-6167
NSN 5935-00-853-3749
NSN 6130-01-589-7152
NSN 6610-01-217-4161
NSN 4140-01-424-1612
NSN 5835-00-523-0736
NSN 6240-00-066-0714
NSN 5945-01-359-3028
NSN 5950-00-069-3920
NSN 5998-00-721-4701