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 6320-01-062-9351
NSN 5905-00-940-9409
NSN 5895-01-150-8104
NSN 5910-00-540-6606
NSN 2925-01-480-8273
NSN 5998-01-062-7038
NSN 5895-00-019-8490
NSN 5998-01-432-4257
NSN 5960-00-333-9897
NSN 5895-01-524-7871
NSN 5935-00-481-1944
NSN 6130-01-529-1689