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 5945-01-500-8719
NSN 5960-01-391-8860
NSN 5990-00-505-1546
NSN 6620-01-026-1776
NSN 6320-00-300-5556
NSN 5996-01-368-6730
NSN 5895-01-337-9537
NSN 6620-00-098-5652
NSN 5925-01-258-4640
NSN 6110-01-092-5396
NSN 4140-01-097-6158
NSN 6685-01-594-4929