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 6610-00-159-1119
NSN 5996-01-607-7035
NSN 5985-01-475-2369
NSN 5965-00-073-3488
NSN 5975-00-341-3913
NSN 5855-01-311-6666
NSN 5855-00-951-6483
NSN 5960-01-350-2925
NSN 5960-01-374-9706
NSN 6110-00-723-4209
NSN 7035-01-107-2811
NSN 6130-00-735-4582