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 5950-00-974-6935
NSN 6610-01-359-5515
NSN 7035-01-357-3726
NSN 4140-00-444-9695
NSN 6650-00-150-6885
NSN 5910-01-044-5618
NSN 6620-01-492-8470
NSN 5999-01-068-4995
NSN 6645-01-376-2336
NSN 5835-01-343-7516
NSN 5960-00-853-8702
NSN 5905-01-450-6460