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 4140-01-031-0286
NSN 5915-01-474-8616
NSN 6240-01-037-2215
NSN 5960-01-483-9174
NSN 6685-01-077-7317
NSN 5960-01-425-1454
NSN 6130-01-376-1625
NSN 5996-01-445-5528
NSN 6240-01-569-0981
NSN 5945-00-394-6869
NSN 5999-01-212-7173
NSN 6145-01-152-2417