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 5920-00-140-8912
NSN 6130-01-100-3830
NSN 6645-01-100-3296
NSN 5999-01-219-5089
NSN 5960-01-066-4771
NSN 6135-01-096-1452
NSN 5960-01-142-1995
NSN 6130-01-622-6352
NSN 5935-00-527-3826
NSN 6645-00-363-9775
NSN 5910-00-276-3187
NSN 5930-00-324-3994