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 5975-00-467-1143
NSN 5985-01-571-4318
NSN 6110-00-721-4042
NSN 5960-01-444-2205
NSN 5996-01-538-3703
NSN 5965-01-385-0916
NSN 5905-01-077-0996
NSN 5960-00-091-8729
NSN 5930-00-180-2654
NSN 5998-00-730-8237
NSN 6650-01-258-5871
NSN 6645-00-235-4685