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 5915-00-201-7090
NSN 5998-01-384-3494
NSN 5950-00-904-4947
NSN 5950-01-518-1630
NSN 6645-01-462-3078
NSN 5910-00-514-2038
NSN 6130-01-462-2342
NSN 6240-00-069-3505
NSN 5965-01-105-1645
NSN 5975-01-212-3870
NSN 6220-00-056-8827
NSN 5990-01-387-0623