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 5920-00-114-4221
NSN 5935-00-239-2190
NSN 6145-01-008-5480
NSN 5965-01-015-5885
NSN 5998-01-459-6502
NSN 6620-00-956-2605
NSN 2925-01-320-0965
NSN 5920-00-669-8538
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 7035-01-174-1029
NSN 5895-00-160-1291
NSN 5985-01-206-4729