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 5960-01-303-5884
NSN 5855-01-513-9601
NSN 5855-01-420-4988
NSN 5835-01-282-6089
NSN 6110-01-519-7030
NSN 7035-01-202-8172
NSN 6130-01-544-0741
NSN 5835-01-522-9881
NSN 6685-01-073-7283
NSN 6105-01-492-7354
NSN 6685-01-010-3234
NSN 6110-01-331-6957