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 6220-00-106-4693
NSN 7035-00-481-5182
NSN 6645-01-547-0300
NSN 6240-00-313-2515
NSN 6130-01-136-3251
NSN 6130-01-478-3582
NSN 5925-00-374-2528
NSN 5895-01-453-4341
NSN 5895-01-386-6881
NSN 6110-00-896-8996
NSN 4140-01-440-9203
NSN 5950-01-168-0793