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 5895-00-278-8092
NSN 5925-01-542-9068
NSN 5985-00-050-6575
NSN 6620-01-243-5281
NSN 7035-01-082-0311
NSN 5990-01-093-3087
NSN 5960-01-602-6009
NSN 5965-01-526-0543
NSN 6135-00-738-5571
NSN 5945-00-140-4094
NSN 6685-01-313-4499
NSN 6610-01-305-7281