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 4140-00-170-1567
NSN 6145-00-826-6676
NSN 5920-01-467-8001
NSN 5920-01-306-6493
NSN 5905-01-475-4459
NSN 5915-01-568-4506
NSN 6645-01-514-3353
NSN 6685-00-851-0515
NSN 6650-00-717-8913
NSN 5945-01-051-2225
NSN 5835-00-106-2120
NSN 6645-00-410-2395