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 5960-01-485-7532
NSN 5965-01-532-1198
NSN 6150-01-303-5167
NSN 6150-01-268-9267
NSN 5975-01-628-3993
NSN 5910-00-352-9417
NSN 5945-01-364-0593
NSN 5930-01-210-7131
NSN 6105-01-436-5053
NSN 5996-01-479-4086
NSN 6220-01-192-0403
NSN 6105-00-647-3955