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 6150-01-126-8949
NSN 6650-01-395-5991
NSN 5965-01-181-3140
NSN 6220-00-819-9325
NSN 6650-01-234-1895
NSN 4140-01-142-3192
NSN 6650-01-308-7284
NSN 5895-01-175-9859
NSN 6610-01-351-4607
NSN 5920-01-301-3085
NSN 6105-01-634-0322
NSN 5920-00-227-6586