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 5960-01-503-8411
NSN 5996-01-393-1101
NSN 6135-01-620-1306
NSN 5965-01-100-3878
NSN 5965-00-879-7287
NSN 5915-01-640-6725
NSN 5985-00-081-1217
NSN 5925-01-323-3796
NSN 6645-00-256-4072
NSN 5975-01-351-5249
NSN 5935-01-534-9715
NSN 5945-00-170-5885