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 6685-01-270-6312
NSN 6145-01-436-3728
NSN 5930-01-577-8033
NSN 5910-00-512-1318
NSN 6135-01-436-7733
NSN 5835-01-447-2544
NSN 6610-00-996-1734
NSN 6145-01-431-8803
NSN 5915-00-636-4238
NSN 5835-00-441-5004
NSN 5985-00-375-1837
NSN 5895-00-599-4394