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 5910-00-951-8544
NSN 6240-01-247-8074
NSN 2925-01-309-3075
NSN 5920-00-593-6496
NSN 6105-01-123-1937
NSN 5910-01-089-3501
NSN 6220-01-474-5989
NSN 5910-00-676-9005
NSN 5996-00-237-8724
NSN 6620-01-435-7083
NSN 6135-01-436-7733
NSN 5935-01-192-8700