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 5915-01-385-8699
NSN 5930-00-089-6745
NSN 5996-01-089-0514
NSN 5930-01-590-5441
NSN 6320-01-476-7702
NSN 6145-00-195-5608
NSN 5935-01-055-6852
NSN 6320-01-294-7161
NSN 6130-01-353-3261
NSN 5905-00-850-4508
NSN 5999-01-418-7244
NSN 6135-00-945-0015