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 5960-01-502-6270
NSN 5920-01-074-4333
NSN 6610-00-147-3187
NSN 5998-00-514-3408
NSN 6650-01-546-7632
NSN 6650-00-234-3275
NSN 6620-00-820-9616
NSN 5925-00-056-0898
NSN 6150-01-019-5734
NSN 5915-01-345-3829
NSN 5835-01-104-4520
NSN 5925-01-208-2341