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 5910-01-248-8382
NSN 5950-00-968-0299
NSN 5985-00-158-4790
NSN 5910-01-089-0637
NSN 6220-01-485-7401
NSN 5999-00-846-2993
NSN 5950-00-922-7729
NSN 5990-01-452-0911
NSN 6620-01-094-3925
NSN 6105-01-607-6572
NSN 5855-01-236-9645
NSN 5960-01-438-0245