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 6110-00-228-8570
NSN 6220-01-500-4516
NSN 6110-00-525-3418
NSN 5999-01-250-1666
NSN 5920-01-440-9346
NSN 5855-01-492-3497
NSN 6220-01-240-8874
NSN 6110-01-083-1374
NSN 6240-01-105-1399
NSN 6145-01-099-9114
NSN 6650-01-202-9143
NSN 5925-00-092-0578