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 5960-00-420-0418
NSN 5915-01-221-1674
NSN 5965-01-222-1420
NSN 5910-00-172-3046
NSN 5935-01-430-2481
NSN 6220-01-124-0918
NSN 6145-01-085-6799
NSN 5910-01-348-1294
NSN 6110-00-442-7657
NSN 5930-00-200-4426
NSN 4140-01-412-1566
NSN 6135-00-944-6953