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 5935-00-398-1584
NSN 5935-01-056-2258
NSN 6240-01-017-8281
NSN 5925-01-356-2893
NSN 6645-00-171-9639
NSN 6145-01-470-0005
NSN 5920-01-498-8387
NSN 5996-01-179-2681
NSN 6320-00-322-3460
NSN 5855-00-908-9314
NSN 5935-00-165-3949
NSN 6105-01-191-2015