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 5910-01-092-2196
NSN 5960-01-538-2082
NSN 6220-01-222-0724
NSN 6620-00-538-8746
NSN 6220-01-279-0527
NSN 6610-01-555-8596
NSN 5950-01-217-1288
NSN 5945-01-011-1511
NSN 5985-00-595-8633
NSN 6320-00-110-8005
NSN 6135-01-378-3331
NSN 5895-00-932-1577