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 5910-00-554-1422
NSN 6130-01-657-6235
NSN 5985-00-779-5697
NSN 5895-01-023-9532
NSN 5855-01-383-6860
NSN 5920-01-294-7511
NSN 5930-01-415-1157
NSN 6105-01-654-6408
NSN 6105-00-115-5458
NSN 5855-01-047-9267
NSN 5895-01-385-1758
NSN 5975-01-631-6381