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 5960-00-906-6087
NSN 5925-00-686-3364
NSN 5965-00-815-2525
NSN 6650-01-397-8856
NSN 6645-00-802-7991
NSN 6620-01-180-5209
NSN 5910-01-173-1094
NSN 5960-01-350-2925
NSN 5910-01-484-9277
NSN 6135-00-112-8637
NSN 6130-01-204-9012
NSN 6150-00-446-7206