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 5930-01-004-6377
NSN 2925-01-525-6495
NSN 5998-01-374-9642
NSN 6105-00-862-1271
NSN 6685-00-782-7974
NSN 4140-00-529-0844
NSN 5985-01-066-9894
NSN 6110-01-010-4551
NSN 5895-01-298-6356
NSN 5975-01-472-5723
NSN 6620-01-575-2799
NSN 6150-01-556-1805