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 6130-00-484-7973
NSN 5905-01-461-5932
NSN 5945-01-613-7743
NSN 6620-01-232-0680
NSN 6220-00-420-8166
NSN 6105-00-144-1754
NSN 6130-01-089-9052
NSN 6650-01-025-7425
NSN 6105-01-379-2977
NSN 6145-01-005-4654
NSN 6150-01-389-4289
NSN 4140-00-078-1017