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 5910-00-910-1097
NSN 6320-01-592-6248
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 5950-01-287-5647
NSN 6650-01-511-5262
NSN 5915-01-625-1360
NSN 5965-01-312-7972
NSN 5998-01-351-7052
NSN 7035-00-541-8516
NSN 5935-01-522-6750
NSN 6240-00-518-3541
NSN 5975-00-889-0496