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 5935-01-261-1980
NSN 5998-01-634-0604
NSN 5960-00-529-2704
NSN 6650-00-273-8732
NSN 5965-01-100-1195
NSN 6220-01-227-0188
NSN 6220-01-249-8571
NSN 5960-00-070-4399
NSN 6645-01-457-8642
NSN 5990-00-554-0366
NSN 5925-01-604-8985
NSN 5920-01-068-3135