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 5930-01-064-5157
NSN 5975-01-453-0506
NSN 5996-00-520-4370
NSN 6645-01-646-2953
NSN 5990-00-539-6551
NSN 6220-00-224-3036
NSN 6110-01-432-0758
NSN 5950-00-035-4342
NSN 5960-01-276-2828
NSN 6145-01-267-0052
NSN 6240-01-068-3491
NSN 6145-01-104-3358