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 5999-01-528-6154
NSN 5855-00-560-0110
NSN 5975-01-399-0113
NSN 6320-01-449-1014
NSN 6320-01-497-3116
NSN 7035-01-242-6496
NSN 5996-01-070-9911
NSN 5920-01-043-4848
NSN 6645-01-420-2417
NSN 4140-00-223-5197
NSN 6220-01-317-8070
NSN 5930-01-197-4757