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 5975-01-612-9664
NSN 5999-00-390-5598
NSN 5965-00-167-1255
NSN 5999-01-212-3094
NSN 5855-00-885-8452
NSN 6650-01-519-1867
NSN 5910-01-487-0120
NSN 5855-00-879-7245
NSN 5925-01-044-0576
NSN 6150-00-081-9928
NSN 6130-01-046-8839
NSN 6150-00-240-9951