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 5920-00-936-7565
NSN 6685-01-061-5508
NSN 6110-00-161-4115
NSN 5985-00-987-1496
NSN 5999-01-627-6335
NSN 5925-01-518-6653
NSN 6650-01-544-7205
NSN 5975-01-268-6487
NSN 6240-01-051-8699
NSN 5905-00-670-5715
NSN 5930-00-127-4224
NSN 5990-01-351-4621