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 5910-01-368-1104
NSN 5960-01-425-1454
NSN 5895-00-679-8606
NSN 6620-00-852-8245
NSN 6220-01-631-1547
NSN 5990-01-411-7706
NSN 5999-01-199-5278
NSN 5945-01-525-7779
NSN 6240-00-514-3507
NSN 6110-01-601-8801
NSN 5996-00-918-6472
NSN 5998-00-397-4292