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 5945-01-383-9453
NSN 6685-00-627-0996
NSN 7035-00-830-1235
NSN 5905-01-480-5271
NSN 6610-01-362-8686
NSN 7035-01-485-0269
NSN 6110-01-356-4735
NSN 6150-00-857-8929
NSN 5920-01-423-8595
NSN 4140-00-995-3268
NSN 5910-01-505-9276
NSN 5975-01-285-3881