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 5930-00-026-8384
NSN 5990-01-633-9503
NSN 5996-01-433-4707
NSN 5996-01-064-4342
NSN 5998-01-593-6516
NSN 6610-00-915-3215
NSN 6220-00-269-4556
NSN 6110-00-696-3145
NSN 6610-01-469-2408
NSN 6620-01-441-0240
NSN 5895-00-610-5174
NSN 5935-00-260-4348