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 6620-00-292-7000
NSN 5930-00-608-3722
NSN 6220-01-487-7690
NSN 5975-01-618-1400
NSN 5920-01-367-5791
NSN 7035-01-068-4175
NSN 5985-01-323-6686
NSN 5895-01-025-9295
NSN 5920-01-168-7810
NSN 6105-01-469-3030
NSN 6685-00-072-1176
NSN 6105-00-384-1693