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 5925-00-513-7610
NSN 5925-01-326-7226
NSN 6320-00-578-6898
NSN 5910-01-041-9167
NSN 6110-00-271-9928
NSN 6110-01-251-4607
NSN 6150-00-401-5412
NSN 5915-00-719-6455
NSN 6610-01-537-7260
NSN 5855-01-258-6180
NSN 5950-01-017-3725
NSN 5910-01-627-2533