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 5950-01-545-7911
NSN 6145-01-152-5083
NSN 6145-01-237-1085
NSN 5999-00-411-2885
NSN 7035-00-897-7567
NSN 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 6110-00-188-9874
NSN 4140-01-359-2895
NSN 5950-00-295-8202
NSN 6105-01-632-4956
NSN 5855-01-549-1507
NSN 6130-01-207-1879