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 5915-01-156-1160
NSN 5945-01-381-7423
NSN 5835-01-504-0837
NSN 6610-01-495-7122
NSN 5960-01-039-7840
NSN 5965-01-437-0905
NSN 5905-00-467-7360
NSN 5975-01-279-0831
NSN 6620-01-222-0143
NSN 5985-00-871-7820
NSN 5935-01-097-3397
NSN 5895-00-173-2538