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 6130-01-391-6831
NSN 6650-01-328-8363
NSN 4140-01-142-2971
NSN 5950-00-218-1362
NSN 6150-01-158-0898
NSN 4140-01-468-5962
NSN 4140-00-081-6814
NSN 6135-01-348-8264
NSN 6645-01-557-8134
NSN 6110-01-388-2389
NSN 6645-01-440-5160
NSN 6135-00-906-0984