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 5945-00-946-6803
NSN 6610-00-917-1480
NSN 5999-01-313-1188
NSN 2925-00-149-0760
NSN 5920-01-217-6241
NSN 5935-00-269-4811
NSN 5985-01-481-3708
NSN 6240-00-919-5977
NSN 6135-01-242-2304
NSN 5945-01-331-0591
NSN 5910-00-935-8239
NSN 6135-00-497-0491