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 5905-00-861-6012
NSN 6240-01-383-8579
NSN 5985-00-433-2440
NSN 5925-00-244-0711
NSN 5945-01-157-3934
NSN 5930-00-488-1076
NSN 6130-01-371-1808
NSN 6110-01-131-2811
NSN 5990-00-814-1718
NSN 6220-00-168-9386
NSN 5910-01-325-7552
NSN 4140-01-316-4676