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 5910-01-175-0231
NSN 6240-00-197-6819
NSN 5945-00-168-3933
NSN 6105-00-234-7787
NSN 6110-00-781-4285
NSN 5999-01-415-5716
NSN 6610-00-156-5699
NSN 5855-01-141-5190
NSN 5998-01-519-8668
NSN 6320-00-242-3300
NSN 5950-01-512-9567
NSN 5960-00-106-7247