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 4140-01-103-2216
NSN 6145-00-466-4068
NSN 5975-01-424-1554
NSN 5985-00-822-3851
NSN 5915-01-134-9104
NSN 5999-00-786-3768
NSN 5999-00-038-0917
NSN 5930-01-034-9993
NSN 5925-01-423-2765
NSN 5985-00-293-8322
NSN 6220-01-492-5018
NSN 6620-00-181-5966