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 5990-00-900-4459
NSN 5910-01-330-8894
NSN 5930-01-391-8008
NSN 5935-01-502-5630
NSN 6105-01-390-3114
NSN 6610-01-124-4592
NSN 5910-00-538-7982
NSN 5835-01-550-5094
NSN 6105-00-242-4867
NSN 6110-00-829-9596
NSN 6135-00-057-2005
NSN 5996-01-016-6937