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 6685-00-581-8868
NSN 5999-00-891-9249
NSN 5999-01-063-7408
NSN 4140-00-307-2732
NSN 5960-01-393-9461
NSN 5930-01-459-0294
NSN 6645-01-217-2888
NSN 5935-01-074-2132
NSN 6650-01-136-1520
NSN 5945-01-634-0588
NSN 6620-01-216-4901
NSN 5965-01-277-8589