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 5960-00-835-3928
NSN 5945-01-211-6585
NSN 5920-01-462-0055
NSN 5855-00-310-2740
NSN 6645-01-368-9990
NSN 6130-01-335-4997
NSN 6105-00-059-9166
NSN 6220-01-185-9331
NSN 6110-00-399-1413
NSN 5990-01-087-7081
NSN 6685-01-170-1568
NSN 6105-00-091-6867