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 4140-00-621-9226
NSN 5945-00-273-9481
NSN 5930-01-003-8502
NSN 5999-00-280-7722
NSN 5915-00-078-9574
NSN 5930-00-137-8920
NSN 5960-01-414-8918
NSN 6240-01-633-9357
NSN 5998-00-269-5444
NSN 5855-00-896-4047
NSN 5945-01-651-8654
NSN 6620-01-383-7519