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 5915-01-210-4274
NSN 5930-01-494-8788
NSN 5965-00-080-2045
NSN 6320-00-242-3300
NSN 6150-01-079-8863
NSN 5990-01-327-1558
NSN 5950-01-441-1155
NSN 5915-01-331-1075
NSN 5960-01-068-4003
NSN 5915-01-246-4664
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 2925-00-839-6815