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 5895-01-563-0101
NSN 6105-01-557-0140
NSN 5920-01-194-2940
NSN 6685-00-110-8990
NSN 5935-01-372-6835
NSN 5985-00-277-4230
NSN 5996-01-123-9038
NSN 6130-01-367-5127
NSN 5985-01-360-5617
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 6105-01-075-8658
NSN 5950-01-469-2364