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 5930-01-132-1404
NSN 6610-00-905-6780
NSN 5975-00-707-8036
NSN 6130-01-379-3834
NSN 5999-01-319-7316
NSN 5998-01-634-0604
NSN 5945-00-148-1238
NSN 5895-01-202-5342
NSN 6110-00-287-7960
NSN 5998-00-500-8551
NSN 5960-01-318-0987
NSN 6130-00-514-1177