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 5925-00-769-3472
NSN 5930-01-359-3081
NSN 6135-01-603-3657
NSN 5998-00-372-6047
NSN 6110-01-070-5840
NSN 5905-01-119-6760
NSN 5990-00-900-4459
NSN 5960-00-706-5439
NSN 6105-01-240-7070
NSN 5925-01-554-0806
NSN 5895-00-596-8678
NSN 6220-01-090-0126