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 5950-00-153-4824
NSN 5975-00-926-7563
NSN 6320-00-004-9158
NSN 5915-00-445-9340
NSN 5895-01-582-7511
NSN 5945-00-926-6295
NSN 5965-00-568-5802
NSN 5835-00-253-3453
NSN 5985-01-069-2318
NSN 5930-00-418-3316
NSN 6150-00-185-3293
NSN 6610-01-287-9814