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 5965-01-142-1807
NSN 5985-01-549-5696
NSN 6220-00-397-6910
NSN 5895-01-278-8065
NSN 6620-00-382-8827
NSN 4140-00-393-1707
NSN 6610-00-896-4914
NSN 5990-01-288-7393
NSN 5960-00-168-3594
NSN 5905-01-078-5352
NSN 6240-01-429-2747
NSN 6240-00-145-8167