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 5920-00-655-4251
NSN 5905-00-552-8381
NSN 5985-00-932-4257
NSN 5920-01-310-8120
NSN 6130-01-396-3399
NSN 6110-01-003-6717
NSN 5950-01-606-2922
NSN 5965-01-160-7037
NSN 5965-00-412-4402
NSN 6105-00-142-5901
NSN 5996-01-158-2531
NSN 6620-01-421-3917