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 5945-00-506-0784
NSN 5965-00-387-6880
NSN 5910-00-437-3647
NSN 5945-01-056-4142
NSN 6150-00-912-3139
NSN 5945-01-093-2112
NSN 5910-00-015-0111
NSN 5920-01-622-7558
NSN 5925-01-376-9290
NSN 5990-00-455-4864
NSN 5975-00-079-9028
NSN 6135-01-466-1153