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 4140-01-513-9139
NSN 5910-01-608-5641
NSN 6220-01-582-3508
NSN 6135-01-187-4382
NSN 5960-01-481-3722
NSN 6610-01-226-8582
NSN 5975-01-226-6531
NSN 6650-01-633-9147
NSN 5920-00-895-3270
NSN 6105-01-359-9504
NSN 5930-00-071-0924
NSN 5920-01-132-0178