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 5855-00-479-9819
NSN 6620-00-862-5567
NSN 6645-01-383-8139
NSN 5950-01-519-2709
NSN 5985-01-406-6799
NSN 5950-01-197-7345
NSN 5965-01-159-0456
NSN 6130-01-580-5483
NSN 5975-01-243-0221
NSN 5930-00-478-2868
NSN 5999-01-092-9773
NSN 6220-01-082-7766