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 5895-00-202-1026
NSN 6645-00-527-7258
NSN 5925-01-490-6296
NSN 5920-01-415-5020
NSN 6620-00-618-5979
NSN 5945-01-234-1522
NSN 6620-01-602-5999
NSN 5920-01-119-7149
NSN 6320-01-465-2028
NSN 6320-00-322-3460
NSN 4140-01-413-2162
NSN 5905-01-527-1372