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 5960-00-266-6741
NSN 5895-00-483-6080
NSN 6135-01-495-0933
NSN 5990-01-055-4012
NSN 4140-01-065-1884
NSN 6620-00-229-2728
NSN 6620-01-633-8443
NSN 6105-01-171-6014
NSN 6240-01-036-9572
NSN 5996-01-108-8764
NSN 5835-01-461-8184
NSN 6105-01-136-3446