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 5855-01-251-7721
NSN 6320-00-284-1524
NSN 6320-00-186-6452
NSN 6650-00-056-1581
NSN 6105-01-106-2631
NSN 6620-01-095-8937
NSN 5835-00-631-5762
NSN 5895-01-510-2533
NSN 6135-01-648-4875
NSN 5950-01-158-5637
NSN 5930-00-288-1882
NSN 5935-01-350-1866