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 5960-00-020-0074
NSN 6240-01-633-9357
NSN 6130-01-467-1565
NSN 6610-01-241-3334
NSN 5965-01-167-3495
NSN 5915-01-497-2821
NSN 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 5999-01-429-2853
NSN 5855-01-553-3368
NSN 6645-01-591-1758
NSN 5915-01-388-8339
NSN 6150-01-519-5516