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 4140-01-388-0340
NSN 5905-00-941-3558
NSN 6620-01-507-5283
NSN 6645-01-360-4562
NSN 6620-01-274-3423
NSN 5895-00-596-8678
NSN 5965-01-446-5408
NSN 4140-01-412-0403
NSN 5950-00-368-7182
NSN 6145-01-141-7250
NSN 6240-01-461-9635
NSN 6620-01-412-5514