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 5950-01-063-6200
NSN 6650-01-178-5644
NSN 7035-01-509-1959
NSN 6650-00-476-9450
NSN 5990-01-563-1554
NSN 5910-00-554-1422
NSN 6685-01-552-2017
NSN 5998-00-197-6380
NSN 5985-00-501-2866
NSN 6610-01-450-5688
NSN 5999-01-529-3983
NSN 5905-01-401-5325