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 5945-00-901-4485
NSN 5990-00-905-2474
NSN 5996-01-351-5699
NSN 5925-01-358-0308
NSN 5950-00-601-7302
NSN 4140-00-171-1387
NSN 5998-01-523-3673
NSN 5895-01-035-8498
NSN 6110-01-337-5665
NSN 6610-01-605-1161
NSN 6130-00-482-6585
NSN 5910-01-306-3994