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 5915-00-270-1076
NSN 5960-01-309-5933
NSN 5996-01-080-2375
NSN 6650-00-678-5627
NSN 5935-01-512-5132
NSN 5998-01-034-9064
NSN 5950-01-479-4473
NSN 6620-01-053-6650
NSN 5985-01-542-3246
NSN 6105-01-339-4318
NSN 5990-01-417-4402
NSN 6610-01-160-0417