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 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 5998-01-397-8438
NSN 5950-00-557-6455
NSN 6650-00-400-4977
NSN 5965-00-342-5126
NSN 5999-00-584-4577
NSN 6110-01-411-0477
NSN 6130-01-216-1621
NSN 5925-01-238-9414
NSN 6135-00-010-5275
NSN 5905-01-389-7411
NSN 5925-01-656-4950