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 5985-01-109-4201
NSN 5935-01-620-4824
NSN 5835-01-199-3554
NSN 6645-01-251-3986
NSN 5925-00-244-7418
NSN 6240-01-281-7249
NSN 6610-01-426-5090
NSN 6220-00-553-4048
NSN 6610-00-156-5699
NSN 5975-01-543-2186
NSN 5965-01-169-1194
NSN 7035-00-140-0474