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 5930-01-390-8534
NSN 6685-00-158-5584
NSN 6685-01-258-1238
NSN 6110-00-942-1373
NSN 4140-01-386-5630
NSN 6320-00-225-7013
NSN 6150-01-164-0546
NSN 5960-01-573-6483
NSN 5915-00-204-7925
NSN 6130-01-599-2231
NSN 5975-01-374-6988
NSN 5935-01-433-6665