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 6645-00-270-6817
NSN 5910-01-455-2181
NSN 5990-01-434-7913
NSN 5996-01-100-3731
NSN 5935-00-382-4642
NSN 4140-00-775-0390
NSN 5935-01-058-9244
NSN 6220-00-951-0878
NSN 6645-00-211-6906
NSN 5985-01-246-1773
NSN 5985-00-569-6010
NSN 5925-01-268-5275