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 4140-01-022-4456
NSN 6145-01-411-5895
NSN 4140-01-650-1208
NSN 5930-01-100-4248
NSN 6135-00-128-1633
NSN 6220-00-239-6617
NSN 6110-00-958-3794
NSN 5915-00-774-6934
NSN 5925-00-957-9894
NSN 5945-01-396-0240
NSN 6320-00-456-0836
NSN 5920-01-392-8908