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 5950-01-445-5993
NSN 5998-01-521-2628
NSN 6240-01-581-4004
NSN 6240-00-460-2675
NSN 5905-01-319-1641
NSN 6320-00-682-3448
NSN 5975-01-239-0187
NSN 5999-01-563-6601
NSN 6685-00-764-7131
NSN 6620-01-476-7355
NSN 5965-00-594-3115
NSN 5920-00-118-8239