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 5895-00-243-6649
NSN 5996-01-243-4072
NSN 6135-00-416-2898
NSN 5998-00-897-8999
NSN 5999-01-655-3796
NSN 6135-01-528-6896
NSN 5930-01-555-3044
NSN 5996-01-322-3927
NSN 6110-00-922-3227
NSN 5925-01-579-4996
NSN 5960-00-222-7772
NSN 5998-00-368-9396