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 5999-01-476-8123
NSN 6110-01-263-9437
NSN 6645-00-363-9775
NSN 6150-00-419-0505
NSN 5965-01-041-8139
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 5945-00-765-9501
NSN 5990-01-186-6446
NSN 7035-01-243-2730
NSN 6130-00-246-8691
NSN 6650-01-659-4609
NSN 5975-01-557-6633