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 4140-01-572-8090
NSN 5950-00-223-5929
NSN 6620-00-492-4936
NSN 5925-01-401-5314
NSN 5915-01-283-9538
NSN 5990-01-582-5238
NSN 6240-00-635-9953
NSN 5998-00-400-2987
NSN 5960-01-047-9224
NSN 2925-01-022-8332
NSN 5915-01-392-9110
NSN 5975-00-025-0690