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 6105-01-555-8479
NSN 5935-01-035-6888
NSN 6150-01-534-0004
NSN 5960-01-344-2604
NSN 5999-01-465-7057
NSN 4140-01-410-8938
NSN 5910-00-211-3573
NSN 6240-01-328-8999
NSN 6145-01-269-9289
NSN 5925-00-111-1969
NSN 5935-01-435-5204
NSN 5985-01-442-1736