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 5925-01-069-3443
NSN 5999-01-322-2690
NSN 5935-01-440-1838
NSN 5855-01-341-2518
NSN 6240-00-079-1759
NSN 6620-01-503-6576
NSN 6240-01-063-7685
NSN 5935-00-164-2690
NSN 6320-01-176-8367
NSN 4140-01-227-1342
NSN 5935-00-054-6831
NSN 7035-01-144-3345