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 5965-01-183-7722
NSN 5975-01-340-9400
NSN 5930-01-221-2502
NSN 5975-01-467-9045
NSN 6105-01-371-3045
NSN 5975-01-283-6398
NSN 6620-01-552-2889
NSN 6220-00-034-7280
NSN 6110-01-048-2414
NSN 5945-01-050-2468
NSN 2925-01-503-6792
NSN 2925-01-146-0278