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 5950-01-010-6506
NSN 5905-00-992-4443
NSN 5975-01-396-0052
NSN 5965-00-182-7928
NSN 5965-01-299-0160
NSN 5996-01-164-6758
NSN 5999-01-323-2897
NSN 5895-01-184-3803
NSN 5960-01-349-8791
NSN 6240-01-268-2223
NSN 6610-00-225-9886
NSN 6645-01-357-9096