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 5910-01-320-3876
NSN 6135-01-027-7543
NSN 7035-00-064-7008
NSN 5925-00-353-0612
NSN 5998-01-340-7358
NSN 5965-01-136-7970
NSN 5985-01-054-1502
NSN 6320-01-290-0514
NSN 6320-01-332-1977
NSN 6620-00-571-8157
NSN 6685-00-988-0975
NSN 6620-01-542-8709