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 6650-01-113-7563
NSN 6105-01-103-0555
NSN 5945-01-144-7547
NSN 6135-01-441-7922
NSN 6220-00-986-0965
NSN 5975-00-827-1107
NSN 5920-00-491-2796
NSN 4140-01-107-5755
NSN 5920-01-136-8843
NSN 5920-01-580-0777
NSN 6650-00-364-7866
NSN 5950-00-109-0129