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 5925-00-517-8512
NSN 5920-01-658-8794
NSN 6645-01-224-4265
NSN 5950-01-046-7378
NSN 6320-00-937-5625
NSN 5935-01-209-1338
NSN 5985-01-126-5676
NSN 6620-01-399-3615
NSN 6685-01-123-9275
NSN 6610-01-027-0087
NSN 6645-00-445-8143
NSN 6145-00-078-9917