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 5990-00-145-1187
NSN 5996-00-181-0207
NSN 6645-00-498-6869
NSN 6130-01-469-7497
NSN 6610-00-161-0680
NSN 5965-01-104-5102
NSN 6135-01-196-7399
NSN 5920-01-066-3709
NSN 5945-01-157-7683
NSN 5925-00-086-8454
NSN 5990-01-054-4255
NSN 5975-01-034-5872