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 5910-01-200-7790
NSN 5975-01-207-0508
NSN 5835-01-248-4320
NSN 5855-01-634-0259
NSN 5975-00-661-1832
NSN 5895-00-855-1083
NSN 6220-01-494-7917
NSN 5960-01-399-4327
NSN 6150-01-555-8238
NSN 2925-00-275-1807
NSN 6110-01-336-3997
NSN 6220-01-208-3390