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 4140-00-397-3545
NSN 2925-01-364-7926
NSN 5960-01-219-5504
NSN 6150-01-394-4154
NSN 6645-01-390-6520
NSN 5950-00-529-0264
NSN 5935-00-297-2472
NSN 5920-00-027-5695
NSN 5905-01-546-6241
NSN 5998-01-366-7993
NSN 5855-01-538-0789
NSN 4140-01-388-2007