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 5835-01-089-7615
NSN 5905-01-530-9399
NSN 5935-00-186-1298
NSN 6645-00-609-7214
NSN 6240-01-142-2963
NSN 5930-01-183-9889
NSN 5975-01-596-5800
NSN 4140-01-243-5817
NSN 5905-00-382-9677
NSN 6130-00-662-8557
NSN 6150-01-482-2190
NSN 6620-01-533-8251