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 5965-01-330-6807
NSN 5835-01-541-9991
NSN 5990-01-655-1437
NSN 5855-01-389-8884
NSN 6320-00-336-5570
NSN 5920-00-161-2813
NSN 5835-01-521-4979
NSN 2925-00-203-8735
NSN 6320-00-845-3261
NSN 6135-00-248-4102
NSN 6645-01-473-3752
NSN 5905-00-136-1916