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 5910-00-115-8167
NSN 5905-01-241-7717
NSN 7035-00-922-5700
NSN 6320-01-425-1417
NSN 6320-00-300-5556
NSN 5950-01-358-8510
NSN 6135-01-285-8807
NSN 6110-01-517-1501
NSN 5835-01-599-1876
NSN 5935-00-712-8311
NSN 6645-01-254-0489
NSN 5835-01-266-4382