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 5905-00-270-7279
NSN 6240-01-625-7262
NSN 5935-01-026-2888
NSN 5950-01-492-6871
NSN 6645-00-998-7820
NSN 6220-00-959-5698
NSN 5855-01-431-8937
NSN 5996-00-026-9118
NSN 5975-00-189-4900
NSN 5975-00-976-1035
NSN 5920-01-019-1989
NSN 6650-01-511-5262