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 6240-00-267-1167
NSN 6150-01-388-4992
NSN 6220-01-379-4528
NSN 5905-00-442-6070
NSN 5835-01-416-6449
NSN 5999-01-298-9053
NSN 5950-01-431-1510
NSN 6105-01-358-4035
NSN 5930-00-964-7363
NSN 5996-00-279-5806
NSN 5960-01-422-3269
NSN 5960-00-860-7709