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 6135-01-446-8310
NSN 6130-01-421-2082
NSN 5930-00-498-8717
NSN 4140-01-386-5630
NSN 5945-01-202-1726
NSN 4140-00-900-6102
NSN 6320-00-108-7049
NSN 5835-01-048-8106
NSN 6645-01-399-0329
NSN 6105-01-483-1506
NSN 6105-00-283-2849
NSN 6150-01-359-0451