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 5905-00-832-5910
NSN 6145-01-360-4335
NSN 5920-00-233-3552
NSN 4140-01-523-9046
NSN 5910-00-857-9192
NSN 6240-00-672-2759
NSN 6130-00-905-1179
NSN 4140-01-586-5845
NSN 6130-01-607-5838
NSN 6220-01-044-0708
NSN 5930-01-634-0659
NSN 6650-01-454-5175