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 5975-00-912-5558
NSN 5920-01-338-8175
NSN 6240-01-621-2774
NSN 5945-01-644-6815
NSN 5990-01-644-3095
NSN 6620-00-952-4278
NSN 2925-01-364-7926
NSN 5999-00-753-1071
NSN 5925-01-190-5372
NSN 6650-01-280-9353
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6150-01-373-4531