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 5930-01-073-5965
NSN 6240-01-462-5433
NSN 5975-00-603-6258
NSN 6320-00-098-2858
NSN 6110-01-353-0619
NSN 5990-01-550-7827
NSN 6130-01-633-7442
NSN 6320-01-229-6479
NSN 6135-01-360-9666
NSN 6145-01-187-2034
NSN 6320-01-243-2276
NSN 5925-00-256-3486