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 5905-01-183-3818
NSN 5950-01-617-9147
NSN 6130-01-343-0160
NSN 5950-01-218-8951
NSN 6220-01-452-4384
NSN 5905-01-332-5200
NSN 2925-00-816-8765
NSN 5996-01-578-3757
NSN 5998-00-079-0199
NSN 2925-01-422-9284
NSN 5975-00-553-7151
NSN 6610-00-199-8915