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 6145-01-169-7289
NSN 4140-01-611-8126
NSN 5935-01-355-1037
NSN 5930-01-301-4865
NSN 5910-01-624-8376
NSN 6645-00-117-9839
NSN 4140-01-168-7531
NSN 6685-00-022-8010
NSN 5998-01-610-7665
NSN 6110-00-246-3941
NSN 6145-01-604-9552
NSN 6110-01-104-9589