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 5910-00-117-9830
NSN 6685-01-395-9069
NSN 5975-00-826-6648
NSN 5985-01-385-2876
NSN 5930-01-012-8748
NSN 6135-00-816-9052
NSN 5920-00-398-0766
NSN 6320-00-701-0437
NSN 6240-01-546-3885
NSN 6320-01-630-7629
NSN 5950-01-232-7017
NSN 5895-01-376-2277