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 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 5925-00-229-3519
NSN 6685-01-094-5644
NSN 6150-01-415-0916
NSN 6320-01-652-3806
NSN 6685-01-463-2970
NSN 5996-01-515-6895
NSN 5920-01-591-4064
NSN 5950-01-499-1732
NSN 5920-00-443-1907
NSN 5998-01-524-6863
NSN 5990-00-185-5888