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 5895-00-754-9169
NSN 6320-00-882-7061
NSN 5999-01-469-1522
NSN 6150-01-242-7301
NSN 6145-01-167-4381
NSN 5910-01-492-6028
NSN 6650-00-324-4973
NSN 6620-01-331-3490
NSN 5910-01-114-1840
NSN 5999-00-920-8486
NSN 7035-00-870-0290
NSN 6610-01-261-4487