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 5925-00-222-6199
NSN 5999-00-679-3208
NSN 5996-00-363-9666
NSN 5975-01-630-5706
NSN 5998-01-318-5832
NSN 4140-01-564-2258
NSN 6650-00-177-0983
NSN 6650-00-287-5868
NSN 5935-01-045-8091
NSN 5895-01-103-8639
NSN 7035-00-205-1932
NSN 5985-00-758-2056