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 5950-01-556-7010
NSN 6105-01-413-4713
NSN 5855-01-603-6901
NSN 6685-01-278-2981
NSN 5935-01-634-0668
NSN 5996-00-408-3387
NSN 5925-01-421-3154
NSN 5855-00-252-5743
NSN 5996-01-583-8067
NSN 6135-01-226-4071
NSN 6620-00-296-6762
NSN 5990-00-386-4951