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 5950-00-474-7137
NSN 6650-00-031-8467
NSN 5975-01-357-2027
NSN 6145-01-137-4473
NSN 6620-01-034-7636
NSN 6650-00-759-8905
NSN 7035-00-535-8109
NSN 6650-00-603-3296
NSN 6130-01-204-1992
NSN 5960-01-472-9562
NSN 6240-00-079-0112
NSN 5910-00-082-1824