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 5905-00-735-6098
NSN 5998-01-532-1052
NSN 5930-01-471-7269
NSN 6220-00-443-9835
NSN 6320-00-553-8427
NSN 6145-01-239-3638
NSN 5935-01-218-5001
NSN 5895-01-548-0036
NSN 5950-00-326-1814
NSN 6130-01-153-0937
NSN 5835-01-544-5183
NSN 5965-01-075-3148