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 5910-00-403-8872
NSN 6620-01-222-8820
NSN 6685-01-513-9208
NSN 5835-00-494-8419
NSN 6110-00-288-4179
NSN 5835-00-061-5717
NSN 5945-01-364-0593
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 6685-01-256-6443
NSN 5996-00-213-4778
NSN 5835-01-412-0344