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 5930-00-951-5775
NSN 5975-01-562-3756
NSN 5999-01-619-7794
NSN 6220-01-483-6752
NSN 6240-00-103-6646
NSN 5999-00-433-4258
NSN 6105-01-448-9380
NSN 6150-01-611-0435
NSN 5910-01-510-1919
NSN 5999-00-842-2176
NSN 6645-01-345-6828
NSN 6130-00-050-5539