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 5950-01-096-6280
NSN 5945-01-441-0704
NSN 5935-00-174-2791
NSN 5935-01-128-3976
NSN 5910-00-518-1477
NSN 6620-01-442-8444
NSN 5990-01-320-1412
NSN 6620-01-044-3371
NSN 5925-00-217-6381
NSN 6145-01-087-4536
NSN 5915-01-400-6125
NSN 6150-01-513-8786