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 5935-00-157-3922
NSN 4140-00-946-6478
NSN 5925-01-004-9293
NSN 5996-01-493-8373
NSN 6110-01-205-0634
NSN 5990-00-730-6269
NSN 5925-01-421-4473
NSN 6135-00-738-5571
NSN 6650-01-160-9160
NSN 6240-01-059-3563
NSN 6620-01-008-1654
NSN 5985-01-307-5935