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 4140-01-502-3005
NSN 6320-01-611-4918
NSN 5990-00-081-1266
NSN 6240-01-433-7512
NSN 5895-01-512-1862
NSN 5965-00-121-7569
NSN 5960-01-350-2925
NSN 5975-00-221-2555
NSN 5925-01-606-0826
NSN 5920-00-308-0778
NSN 5965-00-905-6895
NSN 5835-01-163-4215