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 5935-01-113-9391
NSN 5920-01-294-2805
NSN 5975-01-188-2787
NSN 5975-01-448-2998
NSN 6320-01-202-8761
NSN 5915-01-298-4075
NSN 6220-01-645-6645
NSN 5910-00-401-8834
NSN 5895-01-558-3566
NSN 6645-01-463-3441
NSN 6150-01-181-5612
NSN 6145-00-116-2939