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 5975-01-163-2130
NSN 5835-01-654-4570
NSN 5996-01-246-2472
NSN 4140-01-356-6126
NSN 5910-01-117-7915
NSN 6240-00-758-6392
NSN 5915-00-036-3955
NSN 5998-01-067-6351
NSN 5960-01-553-4557
NSN 5998-01-390-3200
NSN 6685-01-360-8296
NSN 6685-00-273-1618