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 5998-00-954-0111
NSN 5925-01-472-4731
NSN 5960-01-156-1396
NSN 5905-00-260-5008
NSN 5920-00-694-0483
NSN 6145-00-925-2004
NSN 5935-01-180-4203
NSN 2925-01-535-3167
NSN 6650-00-834-9062
NSN 5935-00-450-5927
NSN 5990-01-254-2936
NSN 5915-01-262-7954