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 5998-00-508-1863
NSN 4140-01-634-0330
NSN 5950-00-376-5415
NSN 5996-01-521-4007
NSN 6620-01-534-7180
NSN 5999-01-352-5855
NSN 6320-00-643-0958
NSN 6620-00-209-0767
NSN 5835-01-571-4083
NSN 5895-01-243-4337
NSN 6220-00-544-7855
NSN 6240-01-229-1749