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 5945-01-410-8181
NSN 6620-01-358-5249
NSN 6110-00-060-1879
NSN 5930-01-109-9660
NSN 5930-01-484-9116
NSN 7035-00-402-9426
NSN 5910-00-337-2471
NSN 5998-00-529-8635
NSN 2925-01-318-8853
NSN 6110-00-441-5167
NSN 2925-00-402-5582
NSN 6685-00-772-8853