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 6110-01-170-4190
NSN 6130-01-260-4213
NSN 6130-01-069-2514
NSN 6110-01-321-3164
NSN 6220-00-915-0862
NSN 6650-00-775-6560
NSN 5965-00-400-6228
NSN 6130-00-939-5986
NSN 5930-00-153-8306
NSN 5835-01-109-4775
NSN 5965-01-592-1238
NSN 6610-01-431-8575