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 5930-01-323-0378
NSN 5945-01-414-2383
NSN 6685-01-185-9940
NSN 5895-01-068-5595
NSN 6130-01-208-6481
NSN 5925-00-675-5071
NSN 5905-01-530-9399
NSN 5960-01-359-4257
NSN 5999-01-071-9090
NSN 6685-00-253-9997
NSN 5990-01-118-0151
NSN 6610-01-474-8520