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 6645-01-653-2848
NSN 5996-01-606-0835
NSN 5965-01-661-0996
NSN 5835-00-262-6146
NSN 6645-01-232-4843
NSN 5855-00-228-8446
NSN 4140-00-269-5795
NSN 5920-01-494-8710
NSN 5930-01-191-7297
NSN 5965-00-513-1352
NSN 6610-01-326-0119
NSN 5960-00-577-1512