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 6150-00-937-5930
NSN 5920-01-193-5465
NSN 5835-01-051-7584
NSN 5996-01-113-9492
NSN 6240-01-310-8778
NSN 6645-01-008-2720
NSN 5920-01-322-4216
NSN 5999-01-301-0059
NSN 5975-01-640-7748
NSN 6145-00-301-9124
NSN 5935-01-580-3501
NSN 5960-01-132-2975