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 5920-00-017-2851
NSN 5950-00-238-9441
NSN 5960-01-139-5968
NSN 6240-01-605-8096
NSN 5996-01-414-5167
NSN 5935-01-606-1460
NSN 7035-01-104-5446
NSN 5985-01-450-5998
NSN 5895-00-829-9045
NSN 5998-01-055-7678
NSN 5935-00-491-2099
NSN 5996-01-608-9099