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 5905-00-802-2138
NSN 5998-00-156-7249
NSN 5905-01-310-1864
NSN 6320-01-255-2096
NSN 5950-01-484-9318
NSN 6620-00-456-0404
NSN 5915-01-275-9360
NSN 5905-00-231-5243
NSN 6650-01-265-0650
NSN 5905-00-678-2044
NSN 5990-01-134-7756
NSN 5975-01-070-1529