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 5935-00-100-7204
NSN 6135-01-468-6491
NSN 4140-01-214-6380
NSN 5960-01-355-2968
NSN 5945-01-209-9891
NSN 6650-01-371-9133
NSN 6150-01-307-8284
NSN 5975-01-431-7932
NSN 5915-01-633-9845
NSN 5945-01-231-9607
NSN 5915-00-036-3955
NSN 6320-00-483-0451