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 5998-01-010-8881
NSN 5985-01-121-9671
NSN 5835-00-005-7909
NSN 6220-01-378-7467
NSN 6220-00-604-1372
NSN 6320-01-229-6479
NSN 5945-01-594-7192
NSN 6110-01-095-7440
NSN 2925-01-381-5307
NSN 6105-01-147-5170
NSN 5935-01-092-3464
NSN 5999-01-087-6759