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 5835-00-419-0575
NSN 5996-01-146-8624
NSN 6240-00-476-1228
NSN 5855-01-373-4610
NSN 5930-01-161-0384
NSN 6150-01-066-4304
NSN 6130-01-273-9265
NSN 6135-01-218-3660
NSN 5910-01-067-9104
NSN 5985-01-432-8982
NSN 4140-01-560-0368
NSN 5930-01-614-6314