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 6130-00-723-0563
NSN 5915-00-111-1363
NSN 5960-01-265-1393
NSN 6685-01-112-0458
NSN 5925-01-167-5954
NSN 6610-01-631-4355
NSN 5925-01-361-7683
NSN 5915-00-233-6346
NSN 5925-00-116-8706
NSN 6105-01-044-0193
NSN 5985-01-363-3814
NSN 6650-01-442-0267