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 5905-00-541-1471
NSN 5985-01-413-2394
NSN 5920-01-279-9509
NSN 5895-01-533-1338
NSN 5835-00-074-3700
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 5910-00-188-9085
NSN 6620-01-124-0947
NSN 5835-01-056-9303
NSN 2925-01-342-1712
NSN 5895-01-572-2657
NSN 5999-00-107-2615