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 5905-00-289-4132
NSN 5930-01-387-5956
NSN 6685-01-446-5825
NSN 5835-01-171-0258
NSN 6145-00-663-6133
NSN 5999-01-476-7325
NSN 5996-00-922-1276
NSN 5925-00-202-7857
NSN 6320-01-268-3072
NSN 6620-00-935-1321
NSN 5930-01-029-4166
NSN 5975-01-141-6889