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 4140-01-004-0566
NSN 5960-01-040-0934
NSN 6320-01-564-0893
NSN 5965-01-487-4479
NSN 5925-00-489-1537
NSN 5999-01-112-0750
NSN 6240-01-310-9380
NSN 4140-00-767-8166
NSN 6620-01-390-9551
NSN 5990-00-838-1082
NSN 5996-01-279-1089
NSN 6320-01-605-7059