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 5998-00-826-7771
NSN 6240-01-264-9586
NSN 5998-01-222-1876
NSN 5930-01-241-3657
NSN 6220-01-420-6512
NSN 5950-00-206-3138
NSN 6645-01-466-2083
NSN 5975-00-190-4421
NSN 5905-01-083-4796
NSN 5975-01-418-4003
NSN 5950-01-227-5363
NSN 6105-00-275-0826