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 4140-00-816-8820
NSN 5990-01-633-9503
NSN 6130-00-594-3981
NSN 5965-00-577-1242
NSN 5835-01-090-0328
NSN 5895-00-866-4313
NSN 5950-00-729-3622
NSN 5960-01-046-5953
NSN 2925-00-041-0439
NSN 5998-00-145-7779
NSN 5910-00-616-7116
NSN 5920-01-552-4502