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 5905-01-076-1519
NSN 5935-01-352-7858
NSN 5990-01-576-4383
NSN 6645-00-086-9346
NSN 6685-01-422-4241
NSN 6685-01-180-7697
NSN 6650-01-214-9728
NSN 5835-01-495-0595
NSN 6105-01-414-7100
NSN 6685-00-186-0190
NSN 5950-01-253-9895
NSN 5998-00-804-2257