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 5910-00-275-8283
NSN 5945-01-486-8251
NSN 6610-00-200-8832
NSN 5998-01-040-1437
NSN 7035-01-211-5636
NSN 5990-00-930-3109
NSN 5905-00-194-9338
NSN 5960-01-235-7032
NSN 6135-00-505-0679
NSN 6645-01-180-6219
NSN 5998-01-463-2187
NSN 5965-01-607-0318