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 5930-00-254-7683
NSN 5975-01-377-2524
NSN 6650-01-451-1372
NSN 5925-01-230-5455
NSN 6220-01-166-4909
NSN 5996-01-521-6988
NSN 5945-00-760-6871
NSN 7035-00-205-8767
NSN 6135-01-466-3980
NSN 6240-00-197-6819
NSN 6685-01-103-3143
NSN 5996-01-492-1183