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 6620-00-072-6793
NSN 6620-01-372-4168
NSN 6610-01-287-8559
NSN 5895-01-182-2208
NSN 5960-01-480-0994
NSN 5960-00-118-2903
NSN 5950-00-553-6724
NSN 5855-00-079-2370
NSN 5996-01-264-5552
NSN 5996-00-155-4586
NSN 5935-01-616-9311
NSN 6650-01-523-2302