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 5925-01-102-6486
NSN 6220-00-809-0976
NSN 5920-00-303-5290
NSN 4140-01-152-2672
NSN 5920-01-530-1491
NSN 6110-00-314-3208
NSN 5905-01-191-6451
NSN 6130-00-222-6216
NSN 7035-00-108-4421
NSN 6145-01-339-7855
NSN 5935-01-477-9496
NSN 5915-01-481-9888