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 5895-00-227-4752
NSN 5985-00-302-1785
NSN 6130-00-998-7950
NSN 6620-00-722-3875
NSN 5925-00-583-5370
NSN 5990-00-937-9138
NSN 2925-00-833-9466
NSN 6240-01-285-5688
NSN 5990-01-633-9503
NSN 7035-00-312-3055
NSN 6130-01-617-6209
NSN 5996-01-301-6498