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 5975-01-046-5365
NSN 5925-01-128-2717
NSN 5965-01-485-3167
NSN 5835-01-398-3859
NSN 5965-00-396-3411
NSN 6105-00-171-6521
NSN 6220-00-222-5663
NSN 5998-00-404-8657
NSN 5998-01-377-3656
NSN 5835-00-170-5238
NSN 5960-01-165-1956
NSN 5910-01-578-9401