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 5965-01-223-9218
NSN 5895-01-232-4686
NSN 5930-01-364-0943
NSN 6320-01-139-0533
NSN 7035-00-360-5964
NSN 6650-01-155-3292
NSN 6620-01-519-1387
NSN 5915-00-810-0164
NSN 5996-00-433-8371
NSN 6610-01-406-4985
NSN 6150-01-294-5394
NSN 6220-01-419-6620