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 5999-01-324-4904
NSN 5915-01-150-1005
NSN 5945-01-180-2742
NSN 6610-01-633-8931
NSN 5935-01-084-1377
NSN 5996-00-067-8864
NSN 5930-00-028-4322
NSN 5910-01-089-8395
NSN 5930-01-449-2128
NSN 6105-01-367-2958
NSN 6145-00-458-6437
NSN 6685-00-150-2779