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 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 4140-00-225-8586
NSN 5945-01-539-9396
NSN 5920-01-045-1484
NSN 6320-01-329-2297
NSN 6610-01-535-0310
NSN 6110-01-623-7159
NSN 5996-01-230-8084
NSN 6110-01-390-5329
NSN 6150-01-339-8299
NSN 4140-01-100-1223
NSN 6320-00-894-1644