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 5990-00-003-0569
NSN 5965-00-402-7799
NSN 6150-01-503-3269
NSN 5925-00-059-4991
NSN 6105-00-099-8818
NSN 4140-00-264-5796
NSN 5998-01-117-2354
NSN 6220-01-456-3692
NSN 6130-00-231-3929
NSN 5965-01-218-7795
NSN 6135-00-196-5267
NSN 6650-01-555-8349