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 5999-01-218-3075
NSN 5960-00-436-6269
NSN 5920-01-075-4856
NSN 6135-01-052-9634
NSN 6685-01-450-3285
NSN 6320-00-553-8427
NSN 6220-01-658-6930
NSN 5960-01-180-4350
NSN 6685-00-519-5213
NSN 5895-01-366-2447
NSN 5950-01-058-9743
NSN 6150-00-045-3900