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 6130-01-123-1657
NSN 5855-01-361-9787
NSN 6150-00-984-7743
NSN 6145-01-411-6454
NSN 6145-00-985-2043
NSN 6320-01-578-6006
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 6610-01-059-5271
NSN 5855-01-315-6180
NSN 5965-01-433-8086
NSN 5960-01-325-1581
NSN 5975-01-052-3489