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 5945-01-327-0280
NSN 6320-01-446-6775
NSN 6135-01-364-2738
NSN 6320-01-648-5538
NSN 4140-00-027-5150
NSN 5945-00-655-4444
NSN 5950-00-083-8548
NSN 5930-01-262-2357
NSN 6240-01-130-7854
NSN 4140-01-270-1067
NSN 6145-01-007-7155
NSN 5855-00-189-6066