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 5910-01-121-4944
NSN 5960-01-628-2760
NSN 5975-01-218-2385
NSN 5855-01-312-5160
NSN 5910-00-891-2880
NSN 6320-01-618-3835
NSN 5930-00-138-7976
NSN 5920-01-429-1373
NSN 5990-01-113-8121
NSN 5965-00-653-4782
NSN 5990-01-421-5342
NSN 4140-01-026-1856