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 5935-01-132-9133
NSN 5935-00-139-3441
NSN 6145-00-099-8986
NSN 6620-00-041-3406
NSN 5999-01-062-0682
NSN 6105-01-243-1625
NSN 6650-00-781-3192
NSN 6220-01-529-1236
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 5935-01-632-7251
NSN 5920-00-655-4251
NSN 5960-00-882-5542