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 5950-01-233-9618
NSN 5975-00-905-5194
NSN 5999-01-392-3320
NSN 6150-01-297-7647
NSN 5998-01-012-2593
NSN 2925-01-318-8853
NSN 5925-00-722-0471
NSN 5925-01-288-6243
NSN 6220-01-381-1793
NSN 5998-01-649-3464
NSN 5960-00-087-5454
NSN 6610-00-966-5740