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 5910-01-506-0313
NSN 5998-00-189-1545
NSN 5985-00-939-9779
NSN 6320-01-422-1212
NSN 6645-01-078-4887
NSN 5965-00-839-8991
NSN 6320-00-646-3311
NSN 5985-00-915-3603
NSN 5965-01-500-1840
NSN 6150-00-136-3413
NSN 5945-01-069-3363
NSN 7035-00-919-3381