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 5855-01-504-6080
NSN 5835-00-494-8419
NSN 6110-01-512-1817
NSN 6135-01-116-3385
NSN 5945-01-400-5928
NSN 5910-01-431-8169
NSN 6220-01-185-5545
NSN 4140-01-446-6832
NSN 4140-01-202-8670
NSN 5960-01-298-4143
NSN 5985-01-652-0671
NSN 5960-00-481-6677