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 2925-00-928-5931
NSN 6610-00-853-5657
NSN 6685-01-201-2877
NSN 5910-01-214-5483
NSN 5960-01-653-9441
NSN 5915-01-083-7464
NSN 5895-00-263-3982
NSN 6220-01-613-4722
NSN 6320-01-631-7828
NSN 6220-01-060-9567
NSN 5915-01-655-1413
NSN 5950-01-516-7595