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 5925-01-076-4458
NSN 6110-00-916-6856
NSN 6320-01-308-9392
NSN 6150-00-987-9654
NSN 5999-01-144-5560
NSN 5930-01-444-2451
NSN 5930-01-657-8802
NSN 5895-01-633-4795
NSN 5960-01-567-1096
NSN 6610-01-398-8815
NSN 6105-00-931-4248
NSN 5905-01-578-0708