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 5935-00-941-7976
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 5905-01-613-5922
NSN 5950-01-583-6563
NSN 5920-01-182-3268
NSN 6220-01-632-7594
NSN 6105-01-041-4672
NSN 5925-01-254-2052
NSN 5935-01-205-4902
NSN 5975-01-384-7912
NSN 5985-01-382-3818
NSN 5930-00-498-3221