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 5998-01-172-9657
NSN 5925-01-608-7747
NSN 5996-01-333-3419
NSN 6650-01-191-1669
NSN 6150-01-353-6823
NSN 5975-01-265-6900
NSN 6240-00-491-7191
NSN 6610-01-237-5815
NSN 5960-00-001-4686
NSN 5990-01-363-5728
NSN 5975-01-547-6850
NSN 6135-01-393-4746