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 5910-00-282-6921
NSN 6620-00-233-6839
NSN 5998-00-292-9515
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5999-00-314-6771
NSN 5935-01-526-0156
NSN 5990-00-539-7859
NSN 5920-00-553-4420
NSN 6150-01-172-8905
NSN 5835-01-592-2350
NSN 6135-01-260-7180
NSN 5925-00-631-1078