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 5950-01-229-4230
NSN 5905-01-363-9389
NSN 4140-00-196-7139
NSN 5945-01-467-9234
NSN 5935-00-233-3190
NSN 6130-01-186-6575
NSN 6685-01-649-1504
NSN 5910-01-140-1405
NSN 5855-00-548-4742
NSN 5835-01-550-1577
NSN 5975-00-172-3722
NSN 5999-00-362-3332