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 5965-00-106-3195
NSN 7035-01-145-5059
NSN 6685-01-038-5116
NSN 6620-00-010-8190
NSN 4140-00-101-7903
NSN 6105-00-403-8835
NSN 5835-01-392-7683
NSN 6320-01-355-3998
NSN 6610-00-137-5890
NSN 4140-01-297-8324
NSN 6145-01-234-0423
NSN 5999-01-094-7557