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 5925-01-209-9414
NSN 5855-00-156-5489
NSN 6135-01-445-6157
NSN 7035-01-092-8962
NSN 6110-00-372-4780
NSN 5905-01-314-8473
NSN 6320-00-908-6841
NSN 5965-00-170-5254
NSN 5965-00-661-0469
NSN 5930-01-428-2716
NSN 6610-01-250-7477
NSN 6150-01-343-2755