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 5895-00-937-9236
NSN 6240-00-372-4841
NSN 6320-01-618-3835
NSN 5935-01-239-6205
NSN 6105-00-196-3602
NSN 6135-01-468-6491
NSN 6110-01-057-0806
NSN 5996-01-659-5931
NSN 6105-01-429-8777
NSN 6105-01-406-4264
NSN 5910-00-140-4739
NSN 5930-01-014-7143