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 5855-01-354-7291
NSN 5925-01-179-1453
NSN 5945-01-222-2882
NSN 6135-00-087-5300
NSN 6135-01-574-6577
NSN 5855-01-435-2772
NSN 5975-01-628-0738
NSN 6105-01-559-1826
NSN 6620-01-012-2852
NSN 6110-00-635-8523
NSN 6130-01-125-2307
NSN 5905-01-053-7977