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 5920-00-269-4060
NSN 5930-01-130-6329
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 5910-01-421-3964
NSN 6620-00-019-5499
NSN 7035-00-535-8109
NSN 6610-01-085-6947
NSN 6645-00-269-2764
NSN 5920-01-545-2832
NSN 5935-01-157-9562
NSN 5960-01-541-9884
NSN 6610-01-472-2757