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 5950-01-492-7614
NSN 5835-01-466-5496
NSN 5996-00-838-0687
NSN 5965-01-010-1258
NSN 5996-01-100-4361
NSN 5930-00-226-8016
NSN 6320-01-457-2805
NSN 5920-01-478-9695
NSN 5930-01-123-4818
NSN 5935-01-421-4418
NSN 6110-01-400-4207
NSN 6620-00-449-1973