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 5950-01-546-7686
NSN 5990-00-925-6614
NSN 5975-00-881-6275
NSN 5990-01-262-7981
NSN 5985-01-474-8786
NSN 6135-01-222-0703
NSN 5999-00-496-1843
NSN 6130-01-056-9928
NSN 6320-00-701-0437
NSN 5965-00-243-0207
NSN 5950-01-596-9171
NSN 5998-01-310-4528