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 5950-01-064-6028
NSN 6610-01-571-8038
NSN 5915-00-886-5474
NSN 6220-01-609-9836
NSN 5990-00-061-3360
NSN 5925-00-186-8669
NSN 5855-01-224-7975
NSN 5960-00-241-2911
NSN 5930-01-597-7142
NSN 5945-01-315-7126
NSN 5910-01-130-6115
NSN 5975-01-107-1758