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 5920-01-496-1309
NSN 6110-00-288-4179
NSN 6320-01-261-5983
NSN 5965-00-455-7581
NSN 6220-00-930-8338
NSN 5960-01-411-5217
NSN 5855-00-100-9003
NSN 5975-00-695-4793
NSN 5835-00-009-2862
NSN 6610-01-078-1725
NSN 5925-00-148-8241
NSN 6240-01-508-6446