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 5945-00-562-5958
NSN 5960-00-798-5585
NSN 5930-01-474-0904
NSN 6145-01-370-1242
NSN 5998-01-418-1057
NSN 5975-01-620-1326
NSN 6220-00-487-0403
NSN 6220-01-274-0724
NSN 5915-00-080-3035
NSN 5990-01-411-8548
NSN 5999-01-106-3451
NSN 5998-00-138-1309