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 5999-01-481-3848
NSN 5920-01-420-5768
NSN 6650-00-520-2716
NSN 5925-00-504-5364
NSN 5925-01-035-7440
NSN 6620-00-417-6285
NSN 5975-01-545-0596
NSN 5990-00-492-5063
NSN 6220-01-496-6596
NSN 6645-01-391-6492
NSN 5930-01-208-6412
NSN 6220-01-369-5528