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 5999-01-169-1801
NSN 5990-01-382-5364
NSN 5999-01-479-2233
NSN 5930-01-361-0699
NSN 6685-01-442-7212
NSN 5910-01-327-6353
NSN 5985-00-484-4565
NSN 6220-00-578-6539
NSN 5975-01-223-3907
NSN 5895-01-590-2798
NSN 5895-01-091-7571
NSN 6105-01-379-3847