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 4140-01-237-5799
NSN 5895-01-386-5694
NSN 5960-01-216-7004
NSN 5990-01-095-8866
NSN 6110-01-239-8286
NSN 5960-00-884-2535
NSN 6220-01-633-5105
NSN 5925-01-114-0907
NSN 5905-01-052-2959
NSN 5960-00-764-4592
NSN 5895-00-455-0248
NSN 6620-00-179-9079