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 5996-01-633-7979
NSN 5950-00-127-0744
NSN 5998-01-139-6237
NSN 5835-01-303-6563
NSN 6650-00-848-9892
NSN 6105-01-427-8439
NSN 5996-01-044-1376
NSN 5990-00-170-4239
NSN 5930-00-149-9843
NSN 5998-00-278-4481
NSN 5975-01-621-8972
NSN 6320-00-459-8973