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 6240-01-626-6513
NSN 5925-00-227-8557
NSN 5965-01-434-4095
NSN 5910-01-462-2440
NSN 6130-01-462-2048
NSN 5965-01-323-0501
NSN 6220-01-575-3719
NSN 5998-00-256-8363
NSN 4140-00-740-2153
NSN 6130-01-020-9004
NSN 5996-01-528-9203
NSN 6130-01-250-4387