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 5930-01-013-9251
NSN 5975-01-430-9299
NSN 6110-00-705-5863
NSN 2925-00-734-0516
NSN 5965-01-241-9865
NSN 5990-01-537-4815
NSN 6105-00-361-1299
NSN 6685-01-250-7517
NSN 7035-00-155-9513
NSN 5945-00-517-9566
NSN 6150-01-502-6562
NSN 6150-00-318-8209