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 6220-01-077-7833
NSN 6620-01-444-6015
NSN 6620-00-313-9237
NSN 5905-01-457-3790
NSN 6145-01-447-4306
NSN 6110-01-384-4292
NSN 5960-00-707-3335
NSN 5920-01-056-5481
NSN 5905-00-176-2695
NSN 2925-00-872-4474
NSN 5996-00-468-1874
NSN 5950-01-026-5962