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 5930-00-113-7642
NSN 7035-00-731-8729
NSN 5975-00-139-5369
NSN 5895-01-315-8140
NSN 6130-01-318-4939
NSN 5960-00-226-5238
NSN 6220-01-555-8332
NSN 6650-01-511-4074
NSN 5895-00-288-5878
NSN 6220-01-197-5668
NSN 5930-01-620-5636
NSN 5935-00-824-8106