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 6130-01-503-0881
NSN 7035-00-541-8516
NSN 6145-01-634-0388
NSN 5920-00-862-8734
NSN 5950-01-312-4650
NSN 5950-01-547-0043
NSN 5855-01-545-0566
NSN 5999-00-020-3322
NSN 6685-01-012-2854
NSN 6645-01-099-2910
NSN 5935-00-758-1804
NSN 6135-00-134-6648