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 5985-01-188-8219
NSN 5895-01-039-1515
NSN 7035-01-058-8728
NSN 6135-01-568-3234
NSN 6145-01-452-9551
NSN 6110-00-051-7949
NSN 5990-00-400-3293
NSN 5945-01-443-7752
NSN 5835-01-519-2916
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6610-01-383-1830
NSN 6620-01-605-1154