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 5950-00-510-1744
NSN 6110-01-627-5651
NSN 5990-00-281-4164
NSN 5998-01-566-5205
NSN 5996-01-100-2377
NSN 6685-01-479-9120
NSN 6220-00-660-5539
NSN 6685-00-180-0349
NSN 5925-01-487-0356
NSN 5996-00-536-7617
NSN 6645-00-960-6594
NSN 7035-01-463-3368