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 5935-01-396-6220
NSN 6620-00-929-1188
NSN 5985-01-453-1119
NSN 5960-01-082-8571
NSN 2925-00-964-7128
NSN 5996-00-983-5549
NSN 5960-01-272-9600
NSN 5990-01-331-2221
NSN 5985-00-156-4536
NSN 5999-01-432-9839
NSN 5996-01-490-0955
NSN 6105-00-067-7517