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 5925-00-221-8639
NSN 6685-01-416-3714
NSN 5905-01-350-1961
NSN 4140-01-058-6603
NSN 5835-00-707-6266
NSN 5930-00-203-1321
NSN 5855-01-506-6767
NSN 5920-00-752-3081
NSN 6620-00-257-2783
NSN 6150-01-607-1328
NSN 5945-01-334-4557
NSN 6150-01-201-3041