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 5945-00-664-6668
NSN 6110-01-251-3945
NSN 6135-00-488-4478
NSN 6145-01-282-8258
NSN 5915-00-499-9054
NSN 6610-01-013-8922
NSN 7035-00-225-6499
NSN 5835-01-193-6192
NSN 6320-01-246-4390
NSN 5965-01-417-3211
NSN 5996-00-281-4500
NSN 5930-01-478-1290