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 5985-00-409-5604
NSN 5985-01-578-5908
NSN 5905-00-979-4015
NSN 5950-00-930-1304
NSN 6620-01-307-3468
NSN 5930-01-167-9079
NSN 6145-00-936-0083
NSN 5910-00-378-4725
NSN 6145-01-463-8229
NSN 6620-01-266-1663
NSN 6145-00-465-1641
NSN 5996-00-937-3813