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 5990-00-003-4464
NSN 5996-01-423-8452
NSN 5905-01-029-1984
NSN 6645-00-215-8567
NSN 5990-01-561-6949
NSN 6240-01-183-5425
NSN 5930-00-203-2080
NSN 5965-01-411-9933
NSN 5925-00-270-6005
NSN 6645-01-463-4314
NSN 6105-00-581-9472
NSN 6620-01-643-5531