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 5920-01-027-9995
NSN 6130-00-266-7496
NSN 6320-01-607-1491
NSN 5930-01-192-5198
NSN 6220-01-401-5337
NSN 4140-01-500-4563
NSN 6320-01-412-2973
NSN 5996-00-007-5969
NSN 4140-00-546-3554
NSN 5930-01-432-0963
NSN 6145-01-012-2098
NSN 5950-00-455-2054