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 5910-00-535-9469
NSN 6320-01-036-2598
NSN 5905-00-354-1777
NSN 5905-01-421-5526
NSN 5930-01-550-0833
NSN 6645-01-601-1707
NSN 6650-01-441-3624
NSN 5905-01-350-4304
NSN 6320-01-355-3998
NSN 6220-00-442-2977
NSN 5985-00-146-8010
NSN 5965-00-577-1242