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 5999-01-328-7350
NSN 6150-00-339-4283
NSN 5999-01-508-6027
NSN 5998-00-626-9565
NSN 5945-00-919-7572
NSN 5998-01-174-7714
NSN 5905-00-579-5393
NSN 6685-01-315-4079
NSN 6610-00-261-8159
NSN 6220-01-600-0257
NSN 6220-00-160-1298
NSN 6645-01-486-4305