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 6650-00-241-0970
NSN 6145-01-653-9342
NSN 4140-01-242-8254
NSN 5925-01-346-7727
NSN 6685-01-068-7704
NSN 5960-00-256-3622
NSN 6620-01-132-5190
NSN 5835-01-538-8080
NSN 6685-01-112-2089
NSN 6685-01-614-1380
NSN 5960-01-518-4440
NSN 6320-00-557-3079