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 5920-01-573-0137
NSN 4140-01-420-6817
NSN 7035-01-470-3455
NSN 5835-00-233-6327
NSN 6220-00-205-2040
NSN 6220-01-199-5356
NSN 5999-01-429-6307
NSN 5925-01-441-9624
NSN 4140-00-128-8072
NSN 6105-01-482-0224
NSN 6645-00-466-0685
NSN 6105-00-686-1732