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 5990-00-734-7285
NSN 5920-01-191-3488
NSN 6150-01-296-5872
NSN 6110-00-897-4594
NSN 5930-00-952-3464
NSN 5910-00-867-6524
NSN 6145-00-826-9574
NSN 5855-01-378-1888
NSN 6220-00-937-8792
NSN 5915-01-526-8489
NSN 6650-01-456-1225
NSN 5999-00-369-1623