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 5895-00-231-4233
NSN 6110-00-833-2777
NSN 6105-00-113-0679
NSN 6650-01-148-2161
NSN 5975-01-648-2592
NSN 6145-01-247-2162
NSN 5945-01-384-9780
NSN 5910-01-263-5858
NSN 6130-01-535-7462
NSN 6320-00-194-4252
NSN 6105-00-686-1732
NSN 5855-00-466-2309