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 5930-00-151-9286
NSN 5950-00-783-5358
NSN 5905-00-157-0954
NSN 5920-01-329-8577
NSN 5960-01-352-0451
NSN 2925-00-549-6759
NSN 5985-00-729-1600
NSN 6240-01-381-2149
NSN 6110-00-813-6532
NSN 6110-01-255-7646
NSN 5930-01-518-6646
NSN 5935-00-073-6707