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 6110-01-377-5691
NSN 5925-01-216-3573
NSN 5950-01-415-3910
NSN 5996-01-498-0035
NSN 5999-01-359-8171
NSN 5985-01-055-6688
NSN 6130-00-977-5970
NSN 5999-00-318-2877
NSN 4140-01-466-0217
NSN 5910-01-645-8938
NSN 6150-01-563-9043
NSN 4140-01-423-1005