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 5960-00-079-8489
NSN 5998-01-357-1028
NSN 6610-01-605-2451
NSN 5996-00-333-5182
NSN 6145-00-950-4922
NSN 5935-00-373-3696
NSN 5930-01-593-1054
NSN 5920-01-122-2367
NSN 6145-01-501-8588
NSN 2925-00-824-2186
NSN 5910-00-670-5393
NSN 5998-00-988-3111