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 5915-01-130-3926
NSN 5895-00-987-9523
NSN 5920-01-060-7689
NSN 5985-00-964-9673
NSN 5905-00-155-4767
NSN 5998-01-067-8794
NSN 6105-01-512-9862
NSN 6150-01-188-7297
NSN 6220-01-516-9214
NSN 6620-01-442-8444
NSN 6145-01-406-0278
NSN 6650-00-316-4889