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 5915-01-206-1208
NSN 5965-01-556-2400
NSN 5835-00-447-1924
NSN 2925-01-364-7926
NSN 6685-01-163-3715
NSN 6135-01-101-5039
NSN 5960-01-422-3269
NSN 5950-00-995-5675
NSN 5920-01-415-5805
NSN 5910-00-153-6400
NSN 6320-00-908-6841
NSN 5925-00-812-0626