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 5930-01-147-4841
NSN 5945-01-431-3367
NSN 5999-01-463-5629
NSN 6110-01-123-0446
NSN 6610-01-364-0294
NSN 5920-01-394-5003
NSN 5965-01-644-3479
NSN 5925-01-062-3060
NSN 6150-01-633-8090
NSN 2925-01-391-9247
NSN 6145-00-586-9463
NSN 5965-00-549-0220