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 5960-01-424-1781
NSN 5945-01-502-9531
NSN 5910-01-581-2470
NSN 5905-00-471-2352
NSN 5996-01-344-7957
NSN 5835-00-987-9341
NSN 6105-01-605-1972
NSN 5998-01-158-4286
NSN 5910-01-241-7731
NSN 6685-00-432-1582
NSN 5855-00-949-8143
NSN 6220-00-127-6676