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 5920-00-339-0338
NSN 5930-01-166-1507
NSN 5945-01-593-2929
NSN 5915-01-282-4642
NSN 5985-00-917-6720
NSN 5930-01-188-7378
NSN 6130-01-383-4966
NSN 6685-00-901-0060
NSN 6645-01-423-9361
NSN 6320-00-886-9771
NSN 5920-01-270-7795
NSN 6645-01-507-1453