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 5905-00-878-9354
NSN 5920-01-454-7754
NSN 6645-01-170-0341
NSN 6150-00-557-0667
NSN 5915-01-466-4928
NSN 6130-01-550-3714
NSN 6150-01-455-7797
NSN 6685-00-195-6416
NSN 6130-01-133-2623
NSN 6105-00-171-6521
NSN 7035-01-579-6598
NSN 6220-01-084-6402