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 6650-01-621-2891
NSN 6610-00-763-2415
NSN 6110-01-167-4837
NSN 6240-01-146-4839
NSN 5975-00-350-8141
NSN 6650-01-451-1372
NSN 6150-01-386-4623
NSN 6645-01-347-6784
NSN 5945-00-285-3409
NSN 6620-01-346-9340
NSN 5835-00-833-7080
NSN 5965-01-063-7894