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 5990-01-078-1294
NSN 5996-01-102-5869
NSN 5990-01-065-0492
NSN 5920-01-227-1877
NSN 6110-00-121-0975
NSN 6610-01-301-3513
NSN 6145-01-271-6942
NSN 6220-01-644-4742
NSN 5925-00-575-2986
NSN 5990-00-398-0507
NSN 5945-00-286-8594
NSN 6150-00-323-8226